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Saturday, 19 November 2011
Streaming Movie of the Night: Cropsey [Video]
Friday, 18 November 2011
Sprint first to offer wireless emergency alerts
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By Suzanne Choney
Sprint will start allowing free, wireless emergency alerts?? text messages from the National Weather Service, state and local emergency operations center, even the President?? becoming the first U.S. carrier to do so.
By the end of the year, Sprint will test the alerts in New York City, in conjunction with the city's Office of Emergency Management, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"We look forward to testing this critical service in a city that is the epicenter of our nation?s financial, media and fashion markets," said Steve Elfman, Sprint president of network operations and wholesale, in a press release.
"During the next year, Sprint will continue working with FEMA, DHS, and numerous state and local emergency agencies to successfully make the alerts available nationwide," the company said.
The alerts are part of the federal Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), a major components of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) system being developed by FEMA and the Federal Communications Commission.
The text alerts could be issued for a wide range of emergencies, from those that are weather-related in your area (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires), to warning students on a campus that may have just been put on lockdown because of a threat.
Other examples cited by Sprint:
An emergency message could be targeted to cell phones at a stadium event, informing attendees of where to go or what direction to drive following a nearby highway accident or chemical spill.
If a suspicious package were reported in an airport, shopping mall or office complex, thousands could receive messages to move to a certain area until the threat was removed.
"Wireless users can opt out of all message types with the exception of presidential alerts," Sprint said.
For now, several, but not all, Sprint devices will be able to get the alerts; the iPhone is not on the list, but among the phones that are: the HTC Evo Design 4G, HTC Evo 3D, Samsung Galaxy SII and the Epic4G Touch.
The alerts are "delivered at no charge to the customer and have a distinctive vibration cadence and audio tone similar to what is heard for emergency alerts on broadcast television and radio," Sprint said.
Testing, it is hoped, will go better than last week's national exercise by FEMA of the Emergency Alert System on TV and radio, when some reported hearing a Lady Gaga song played through the test period.
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Thursday, 17 November 2011
Andrea Bocelli Expecting A Daughter With Fiance
Andrea Bocelli Expecting A Daughter With Fiance
Opera star Andrea Bocelli is going to be a father for the third time. Bocelli, the popular blind opera star, and his partner Veronica Berti [...]
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International Space Station gets 3 new tenants (AP)
MOSCOW ? The International Space Station got three new crewmembers Wednesday, temporarily doubling in crew size with the arrival of a Russian Soyuz capsule.
The Soyuz TMA-22 delivered NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday. They moved onto the station about two hours after their capsule successfully docked.
The three newcomers were greeted with hugs and handshakes from American Michael Fossum, Russian Sergey Volkov and Japanese Satoshi Furukawa who have been at the station since June and are due to return to Earth next week.
The 39-year-old Shkaplerov and 42-year-old Ivanishin are making their first flights into space. Burbank, 50, who will take over command of the space station, is a veteran of 12-day shuttle missions in 2000 and 2006. The three men are to remain aboard the space station until March.
Officials at Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow and the cosmonauts' families radioed congratulations to the crew.
The mission's launch had been delayed for two months because of the crash of an unmanned Progress cargo ship in August. That failed launch raised doubts about future missions to the station, because the rocket the crashed ship used had the same upper stage as the booster rockets carrying Soyuz ships into orbit. The delay cut the crew numbers to three. Another launch next month will take the station back to its normal six-person crew.
William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said in a televised news briefing shortly after the docking that "the Russian team did the tremendous job of getting the launch and the docking ready."
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
9-year-old survives almost 2 days in car wreck
COVE CITY, N.C.?? A 9-year-old North Carolina girl pinned in a wrecked car for almost two days ate Pop-Tarts and Gatorade to help her survive the single-car crash that killed her father, police and relatives said on Monday.
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Jordan Landon of Cove City was airlifted to a hospital Sunday night after rescue teams cut her out of the 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that had been upside down in a culvert since Friday night, the North Carolina Highway Patrol said. Killed was 39-year-old Douglas Landon, police said.
Sgt. David Clifton called the girl "heroic" and said she was able to stay calm despite being trapped in the dark and cold. He said the girl was talkative and she was expected to fully recover.
Clifton said a person walking by saw the car off the state highway and called 911 late Sunday afternoon, more than 40 hours after the pair was believed to have crashed on their way to a store. Temperatures at night had dropped into the 30s in the area in eastern North Carolina.
Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast.
"He wasn't speeding, there is no way in God's green earth he was speeding," Morse told WCTI-TV.
In his final moments, a family friend said Landon was trying to protect his daughter.
"He was curled up in a ball with his arm right across his chest and his other arm pushed out across Jordan. He was trying to hold her and trying to keep her protected, he was a good father," Kevin Brinson told the TV station.
Her mother, Claudette Leohmann, said Jordan was recovering but was very upset about the loss of her father, who was Leohmann's longtime boyfriend.
A call by The Associated Press to the local highway patrol station went unanswered Monday night.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45300614/ns/us_news-life/
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
An era of technology-based communications and its implications ...
We live in an era of technology-based communications with social media, internet and texting. The world has kept changing and it will continue to change. I still remember how dramatic it was when CDs came out in the world when I was a teen. I saw some adults insisting on using a record player and feeling sentimental about it. It was one of the big innovations I remember in my life.
My parents brought some CDs home and they were Top Gun and Over the Top. I still remember that. My dad put them in a CD player and we stood around it waiting for the sound to come out. When we heard the introduction of Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins, we looked at each other and we all said, ?Ohhhhhh, the sound quality is phenomenal!? It was pure sound without the scratchy noise you could hear from records. Also, I liked the shiny surface of CDs; they looked so modernized.
Often I think about implications of internet, social media, and texting. Many things are one-click away and it takes less efforts. In a real world, you can not avoid things you don?t like. For example, in school you may meet someone who you don?t like. You have choices: learning how to get along well with the person or having issues with him/her. You have to figure it out. It?s the same for work. That?s the main reason why I send my children to school. I hear some disturbing stories on news and sometimes I think, ?What a world are we living in?? Of course, I hope that nothing horrible happens to them. But I want them to step out of their comfort zone which is home for them and to learn how to avoid danger, how to deal with the others, and how to be independent on their own.
On the other hand, with social media?such as Facebook, you can choose to stay in your world. Maybe you are having a bad day or you are upset with your husband?s work. So, you decide to broadcast how upset you are, how sad you are, or how unfortunate you are on Facebook. People including those who you have met maybe 3 times in your life tell you that they are sorry for you, life is not fair, and life is hard. So, you get satisfaction because you feel like your opinions are validated. However, the pitfall of this is that it keeps you in your own little world. Because you are satisfied, you stop seeking solutions for your core issues (if you need one). You sit in front of your computer and hear what you want to hear. That?s it. You don?t step out of your comfort zone to do something about it.?Another issue with Facebooking is that words seem to weigh less there. Without looking at the person?s face you are communicating with, it?s easier to say things that you don?t mean or it?s easier to say mean things.
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When my children get a birthday party invitation from their classmates, we often have choices to RSVP by either e-mail or phone. When I have to reply ?no?, I find it easier to do that via e-mail rather than making a phone call. You know why? It takes less efforts. I don?t have to pick up a phone and try to have a little conversation with the parent that I never met. See, it?s easy. Depending on topics, I don?t neglect making efforts to pick up a phone and to have an actual conversation, though. For example, we got invited to a Thanksgiving dinner by our wonderful neighbor. However, we had to decline because we had another plan. Before I called her, I felt really bad about turning it down. I could have just texted her. But, my relationship with her is very important for me, so I picked up the phone and called.
But, I admit sometimes it?s better if you communicate via e-mail, Facebook, or texting under some circumstances. When my friends had a baby, the last thing I wanted to do was to wake her or her baby up by calling. Or I don?t like to interrupt what my friends are doing with trivial things. So, with those cases, I prefer texting, e-mailing or Facebooking.
I am not complaining about these trends. I know we can?t go back to the old days and we don?t need to. Rather I want to use it in a smart way because it will be the center of my children?s social life. And, I acknowledge the benefits I get from them as having families and friends all over the world. It?s the best way to keep in touch with those who live far away from you. For me, social media?is the way to keep in touch with the others but I don?t need hundreds of ?friends?. I keep in my mind that I don?t throw out words lightly and I don?t get caught up with trivia going on in cyberspace. We can definitely maximize the benefits of social media?by knowing how to use them.
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