Md. stands to gain despite Obama budget cuts – Baltimore Sun
February 2, 2010
Md. stands to gain despite Obama budget cuts – Baltimore Sun
 CBC.ca |
Md. stands to gain despite Obama budget cuts
Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON — – President Barack Obama wants to end the nation's troubled program to return astronauts to the moon, but NASA officials indicated Monday that any change was unlikely to mean cutbacks at the Goddard … NASA funding plan takes a broader view Dark Cloud Over NASA Budget Has Silver Lining Private spaceflight goes public |
China to Sanction US Companies That Sell Arms to Taiwan – Voice of America
 The Hindu |
China to Sanction US Companies That Sell Arms to Taiwan
Voice of America The Chinese government indicated Tuesday it is still angry over a nearly $6.5 billion US arms sale to Taiwan that was announced in Washington Friday. Photo: AP China has warned of serious repercussions for relations with the United States after the … China may sanction arms-selling US companies with multifold options Boeing says too early to speculate on China sanctions China's threat to sanction US firms in arms sale could backfire |
Cloudy with light snow later in the day and evening – Times Herald-Record
 Ukrainian News Agency |
Cloudy with light snow later in the day and evening
Times Herald-Record Expect a cloudy Tuesday. A chance of light snow this afternoon. Highs in the lower 30s. Light and variable winds…becoming south around 5 mph this afternoon. Chance of snow 40 percent. Tonight: Light snow likely. Snow accumulation around an inch. … TODAY'S WEATHER: Groundhog sees his shadow Fog early; cloudy, high of 37 later today, NWS predicts Highs in the 30s expected |
Obama’s Home State Holds First Primary Election of 2010 – ABC News
 Seattle Post Intelligencer |
Obama's Home State Holds First Primary Election of 2010
ABC News Illinois is holding the first-in-the-nation 2010 primary elections today, testing whether the voter unrest which helped elect Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts reaches all the way to President Obama's home state. … Dems, Republicans look to mix up Ill. delegation Nation's 1st primary sets stage for Ill. showdown Republicans, Democrats target Obama Senate seat |
Obama’s Budget Pushes Clean Technologies, Cuts Fossil Fuel Incentives – New York Times
February 1, 2010
Obama’s Budget Pushes Clean Technologies, Cuts Fossil Fuel Incentives – New York Times
 CBC.ca |
Obama's Budget Pushes Clean Technologies, Cuts Fossil Fuel Incentives
New York Times President Obama's $3.834 trillion budget, to be released today, proposes to inject billions more dollars in clean energy research while slashing federal fossil fuel subsidies, according to White House officials. … Deficit predicted to shrink slightly over next 10 years Analysts View: 2010 budget deficit to hit new record Obama Unveils $3.83T Budget With Massive Deficits |
Obama’s 2011 Budget Kills Any Hopes of NASA Returning to the Moon by 2020 – DailyTech
 DailyTech |
Obama's 2011 Budget Kills Any Hopes of NASA Returning to the Moon by 2020
DailyTech Last week, DailyTech reported that the Obama administration was thinking long and hard about going with some of the recommendations of the Augustine Panel with regards to funding NASA. Two of the recommendations that the administration was reported to … Obama's $3.83 trillion budget hits twofold in Houston Obama to scrap funding for Nasa's American moon base mission Barack Obama to drop Nasa moon mission in budget cutbacks |
China attacks US ‘Cold War’ mentality over Taiwan arms sales – Telegraph.co.uk
 The Guardian |
China attacks US 'Cold War' mentality over Taiwan arms sales
Telegraph.co.uk China has accused the United States of 'rude and unreasonable Cold War thinking' over its decision to sell £4 billion worth of arms to Taiwan. By Peter Foster in Beijing The rhetoric in a series of venemous editorials in the government-controlled media … Chinese media accuses US of 'cold war thinking' over Taiwan arms deal Arms Deal Cools US-China Ties China fumes at latest US arms sales to Taiwan |
Obama will reset his agenda in State of the Union speech – Washington Post
January 26, 2010
Obama will reset his agenda in State of the Union speech – Washington Post
 New York Daily News |
Obama will reset his agenda in State of the Union speech
Washington Post When President Obama appears before Congress and the nation on Wednesday night to deliver his State of the Union speech, his goals will be to reset his agenda, assure his demoralized party that he has not given … Mass. in mind for State of Union Obama Seeks Partial Three-Year Spending Freeze Obama To Freeze Salaries Of Top US Government Officials |
Report: Apple seeks books pricing plan for tablet – CNET
 Telegraph.co.uk |
Report: Apple seeks books pricing plan for tablet
CNET Apple is in secret last-minute negotiations with book publishers over a new e-books pricing scheme for Apple's highly anticipated tablet computer, putting it in direct competition with Amazon, according to a report in the Wall Street … Apple tablet buzz mounts as Steve Jobs plans unveiling Apple's Tablet: App Makers Target Business Use Apple wants to price tablet hardcover bestsellers $13-$15 – WSJ |
Hillary Clinton will be in London for State of the Union – Washington Post
 MiamiHerald.com |
Hillary Clinton will be in London for State of the Union
Washington Post Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got a pass last week from President Obama to skip Wednesday night's State of the Union speech. (We had heard she begged to be excused, but apparently it didn't come to that. … Aid Distribution Improves As Clinton Defends US Haiti Leadership Clinton lashes out at critics on Haiti US Boosts Troops in Haiti as Clinton Defends Military's Role |
Ill. sheriff jailed on drug charges faces new allegations of murder for hire … – Los Angeles Times
January 3, 2010
Ill. sheriff jailed on drug charges faces new allegations of murder for hire … – Los Angeles Times
 KMOX.com |
Ill. sheriff jailed on drug charges faces new allegations of murder for hire …
Los Angeles Times By AP MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois sheriff already accused of selling marijuana, often while on duty, now faces charges of solicitation of murder for hire. Gallatin County Sheriff Raymond Martin was arrested Saturday at the Jackson … Sheriff's wife, son jailed in alleged murder-for-hire plot Gallatin sheriff and family charged with solicitation of murder Sheriff, Wife & Son Accused Of Murder For Hire Plot |
White House: Al-Qaida Threat Closes US Embassy in Yemen – Voice of America
 Telegraph.co.uk |
White House: Al-Qaida Threat Closes US Embassy in Yemen
Voice of America US President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor says a threat from an al-Qaida affiliate led to the closure of the American embassy in Yemen. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports this same group has been linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombing … Al-Qaida alert forces UK to close Yemen embassy No "smoking gun" before Christmas bombing plot: White House advisor Western embassies in Yemen shut down after al-Qaeda threatens attack |
Man who allegedly firebombed city hall in Ohio is arrested, says he’s ‘150 percent innocent’ – Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 16, 2009
Man who allegedly firebombed city hall in Ohio is arrested, says he’s ‘150 percent innocent’ – Minneapolis Star Tribune
MANSFIELD, Ohio – A man accused of firebombing an Ohio city hall has been arrested on charges of aggravated arson and manufacturing a dangerous ordnance. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says 40-year-old Kevin Dye was taken into custody Tuesday. Dye is a suspect in the
Brazil Toddler Has 50 Sewing Needles Inside Body – CBS News
(AP) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) – A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said Wednesday they were apparently stuck there one by one. Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski told The Associated Press that surgeons hope to remove most of the needles
Renault to sell ‘large stake’ in team, stay in Formula One – CBS Sports
PARIS — Renault is staying in Formula One racing after agreeing Wednesday to sell a “large stake” in the team to a private investment firm to keep the cars on the grid in 2010. The French carmaker had been weighing whether to pull out of F1 following a crash scandal that led to the departure of
Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner takes-off from Paine Field – DailyTech
It’s been a long time coming, but Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has finally made its first flight just days after its taxiing run . After two years of delays, the next generation airliner took to the air at 1:27 pm EST from Paine Field in Everett, Washington. The flight is expected to last for more than
Billboard names Taylor, Kanye among year’s best – MLive.com
December 10, 2009
Billboard names Taylor, Kanye among year’s best – MLive.com
(AP) — NEW YORK – They gave us the most memorable music moment of 2009, so it’s only fitting that Kanye West and Taylor Swift have been named the king and queen of the charts. Billboard magazine named Swift the top female artist, while West was declared top male artist. But Swift trumps West
NYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer – WTOP Radio
NEW YORK (AP) – A plainclothes cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanging gunfire that shattered Broadway theater and gift shop windows, before killing the suspect near a landmark hotel, police said. No one else was injured
Nielsen to close Editor & Publisher as it sells other titles, including Billboard – Minneapolis Star Tribune
NEW YORK – The Nielsen Co. is selling some of its most prominent trade journals — including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard — and shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years. In all, Nielsen is selling eight titles to e5 Global Media LLC, a
Newspaper Circulation May Be Worse Than It Looks – FOX News
November 22, 2009
Newspaper Circulation May Be Worse Than It Looks – FOX News
SAN FRANCISCO — While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren’t necessarily selling more copies. Here’s why: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a
Wrap-Up: Raiders 20, Bengals 17 – ESPN.com
Bruce Gradkowski was named Oakland’s starting quarterback because team officials thought he could give the Raiders a better chance to win than JaMarcus Russell . So far, so good. Gradkowski wasn’t great for all of the game, but he threw a big touchdown late in the game to Louis Murphy to give
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Radiation release at Three Mile Island is not significant – Chicago Tribune
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant. Specialist John White has told ABC News that there is no indication that radiation at the plant exceeded or even approached
Jimmie Johnson becomes first driver to win four consecutive NASCAR championships – MLive.com
AP Photo Jimmie Johnson celebrates his fourth consecutive NASCAR title. HOMESTEAD, Fla. — All Jimmie Johnson ever wanted was a chance to race with the best in NASCAR. Maybe even win a race or two. Never did he expect to be a champion. Especially four times over. Johnson bulldozed his way into the
Varitek will stay with Red Sox – New York Post
November 11, 2009
Varitek will stay with Red Sox – New York Post
Catcher Jason Varitek has exercised his $3 million option to stay with the Boston Red Sox. Boston declined to exercise its $5 million club option on Monday, and Varitek then had two days to decide whether to exercise his player option at the lower price. The 37-year-old was Boston’s starting
A middle school in North Carolina is selling test scores to students in a bid to raise money. – San Francisco Chronicle
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that a parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro come up with the fundraising plan after last year’s chocolate sale flopped. The school will sell 20 test points to students for $20. Students can add 10 extra points to each of two
Shutterstock: A Case Study Of How One Company Is Using Twitter To Grow Their Business
September 14, 2009
On my never-ending quest to find individuals and companies succeeding with Social Media I hit a goldmine. In a single word, Shutterstock. In today’s post I share how one company, in a VERY crowded space, is dominating the niche with Twitter!
Shutterstock is a microstock company, which means that photographers upload their photos to the site, which in turns sells them to graphic designers, news agencies, marketers, pretty much anyone who needs stock imagery. The photographers receive a commission every time one of their images is sold. Basically it’s crowdsourcing, as Shutterstock outsources the task of taking stock photos to the general public.
There are several of these microstock companies aside from Shutterstock; other ones include iStockphoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia, Big Stock Xchang, etc. When Twitter started blowing up, around six months ago, all these companies tried to stake a presence on this glitzy new social media platform. So far, Shutterstock appears to have been the most successful. Why?
1. Right from the start, Shutterstock identified their audience and offered them exactly what they wanted: free, useful stuff. In this case, Shutterstock’s audience was comprised mainly of graphic designers and photographers, so Shutterstock began to post free vectors and images every week on its Twitter account, as well as links to Shutterstock generated articles containing photography tips, Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, etc.
2. Shutterstock began to actively engage people who mentioned their service in their Tweets; every week Shutterstock responded to @shutterstock comments, to either offer technical advice, voice appreciation or ameliorate concerns. Doing this, and doing this in a specific, casual tone, made Shutterstock’s followers feel like they had a direct pipeline into the company.
3. Many bloggers use Shutterstock as an image source for their blogs, so Shutterstock began to Tweet each blog post by an influential blogger that featured a Shutterstock image. Since bloggers are really the rockstars of Twitter, with a devoted readership base, this helped channel new people to Shutterstock, and also demonstrated that respectable bloggers used the service. Basically, Shutterstock used Twitter to network with popular bloggers.
4. This one’s important! Shutterstock went back through its site and embedded link buttons to Twitter and Facebook throughout all of the site’s pages. This way, whenever anyone new signed up to the site, or uploaded an image or collected a payment, their was a little button that they could click on that automatically made them a Facebook fan/Twitter follower of Shutterstock.
5. On top of all this, Shutterstock designed a simple and imaginative application for their photo submitters could called Shuttertweet. This application sends out a Tweet from a Shutterstock photographer’s Twitter account once a day announcing their sales and accepted images. Since many Shutterstock photographers are looking to promote their portfolios, this was an attractive service that many photographers signed up for. Now, with @shutterstock appearing in so many people’s news feeds, Shutterstock is channeling more interest than ever.
At this stage of the Twitter craze, the number of followers of each of the major stock image services seem to tell the tale:
Shutterstock:11,194
Istock:2,198
Getty Images: 1,218
Dreamstime:754
Fotolia: 223
Big Stock Photo: 168
stockxchng: 137
Shutterstock has created a vibrant Twitter community that continues to experience an accelerated rate of growth. The only question now is to see how this will translate for the company’s bottom line which will no doubt benefit from the added traffic, exposure, and social media success they are experiencing!
Source: http://marketing-expert.blogspot.com/2009/09/shutterstock-case-study-of-how-one.html
Why one user chose Alpha Five over Crystal Reports and other solutions
September 12, 2009
Why we selected Alpha Five over Crystal Reports and other solutions.
By NICHOLAS WIELAND –Alpha Five Developer and Accounting System Expert
As a software solution provider, our clients need us to stay competitive and cost effective. This meant constantly reviewing the set of tools we use to provide our service. Because we specialize in Accounting, flexible and comprehensive reporting were of primary concern.
For many years our primary tools have been Crystal Reports (reporting), Dotnetnuke (website), Visual Basic (Windows Mobile Solutions) and our customers use QuickBooks Pro/Enterprise, Mas90, Navision, Macola, Exact and many other accounting packages.
In the Fall of 2007 a client asked us to build a completely web-based solution that included complex reporting. We needed to find a new software development tool – one that would let us develop the application in a single environment and do it faster than we knew our current tools would let us.
About Alpha Five
I found Alpha Five and read reviews on it from sites like Techrepublic.com, cnet.com, Infoworld.com, and PCworld.com. The reviews looked “too good to be true”, especially regarding ultra-quick development times and other RAD features. Alpha Five has a strong developer community so we read through comments by the developers on the Alpha Software message board about the pros and cons of the product.
Our findings:
· Developers really tried to help one another – good, we would need that if we adopted Alpha Five.
· It seemed that Alpha Software personnel responded to bug reports/issues quickly.
· It appeared that the President & CEO of the Alpha Software played an active role.
We downloaded Alpha Five version 9 and started to play with it. Being fluent with Crystal Reports and Excel, I very much liked what I saw. I asked questions on the message board and found a good consultant to work with for this specific project. In short order, I knew using Alpha Five would be a very positive step for our company.
Our decision to use Alpha Five was based on our 25 years of Accounting Software development experiences. We know what we need!
Many Accounting and Development Software Packages utilize Crystal as the report writer portion of their software. Microsoft uses it in Visual Basic and or .Net Studio software – they embed it as their reporting tool. Many Accounting Software packages provide the same e.g. Exact Software ES product allows you to update reports using Crystal as many others.
Crystal Reports is an industry standard! There are others like Swift reporting, Jet reports and Finer Edge. But they did not offer us the advantages of Alpha Five!
Alpha Five included more than just reporting:
· Web Development
· Intranet Database Applications
· Internet Database Applications
· Desktop ApplicationsAnd Reporting too!
About our Web Development skills:
We have an intimate knowledge of Webmatrix from initial attempts to build our website. We certainly know of and understand Visual Basic because of our Mobile Order Entry Solutions. Our own website uses Dotnet (dukedotnet) as the foundation for its deployment and we will soon be converted to Dukedotnet 5.1 alongside Alpha Five.
Yes, you can do anything with .ASP and other tools. In fact there are 1000’s of components to chose from (see http://www.componentsource.com/). But Alpha Five has everything built in, right at your finger tips.
Here is a Real Life Situation.
June 1st 2008 we receive a call from a MAS90 dealer whom we have been trying to Sell our Windows Mobile Solutions since 2005. The Dealer – Says “can you design a Database AND a Work Flow AND Program FINISHED BY July 15th (start of customer’s busy season). The program had to be accessed by an office in another part of the state, a Web application was the perfect solution!
Prior to this we had built two software applications using Alpha Five:
· (Mfg – Available to Promise) from two separate SQL databases
· 10 different PSQL databases to report via one for Collections (for a Publishing Company).
Now we had to provide a turnkey, database, Intranet Solution that covers a Manufacturer Process. And we had a project that needed to be complete FAST!
If we had used an .ASP tool like Webmatrix, Visual Basic and or Visual Studio and SQL this project would have the following problems:
· Cost would have been prohibitive.
· Our deadline would have been missed
· Would have required more hardware e.g. SQL Server.
· Would not have been an option that would allow us to deliver on time.
The ONLY way this project could be installed was using ALPHA FIVE to create an Intranet application. BY JULY 18th we had installed this application, had it running in one of the largest Food Processing plants in Maine.
In Conclusion:
Our decision to get on onboard and use Alpha Five was an outstanding one and changed how our company approaches software development for the positive. Any other decision and we would not have be able to deliver in 30 days the functionality needed by a major Food Processing Facility. Our .Net skills would not be able to deliver this
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