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Bill Clinton 'sings' big summer hit 'Blurred Lines'
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When you blur the lines between fantasy and reality as well as the folks at baracksdubs, it's clear where former President Bill Clinton comes down in the song-of-the-summer battle.
By mixing Clinton's words over Robin Thicke's hit "Blurred Lines," baracksdubs has hit viral video gold once again. The YouTube channel describes the new creation as "the womanizer of womanizers" singing "the other song of the summer."
Parts of Clinton speeches are used to create such lyrical snippets as: "But you're a good girl / The way you grab me / Must wanna get nasty / Go ahead, get at me."
But the highlight might be when President Obama is briefly added to the mix at the :25 mark, singing part of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" from a campaign event in New York in January 2012.
With 104 million views on YouTube, "Blurred Lines" has been a popular choice for video mash-ups all summer. The song was played over the top of re-imagined intros for "The Cosby Show" and "Full House." And Jimmy Kimmel got in on the act, among others.
Baracksdubs previously dubbed Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" the song of the summer, and mixed the president over yet another Pharrell Williams hit, below.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/bill-clinton-sings-big-summer-hit-blurred-lines-6C10720162
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T-Mobile's HTC One gets fix for LTE data, stability
T-Mobile today announced an update to its HTC One that works on a trio of issues. Here's what's new in software version 1.27.531.11:
- Software stability
- LTE and reception
- Processor enhancements
The update keeps things on Android 4.1.2 — we're not expecting 4.2.2 in the U.S. for a little while still — and weighs in at 247 megabytes.
Source: T-Mobile; more: HTC One forums; Thanks, Steve!
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Music streaming app Rhapsody adds editorial content on iOS
Music streaming app Rhapsody adds editorial content on iOS
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Music streaming service Rhapsody has announced a major update to its iOS app, giving subscribers much more content, and much more reason to stay inside the app for longer stretches of time. The update brings Rhapsody?s editorial content to users, giving them a chance to read about their favorite artists on the go, without leaving the app or loading an external website.
The Rhapsody update brings artist interviews, album reviews, videos, new artist recommendations and more to the service, which is available as a 14-day free trial for new users. Using more than 10 years of curated content, subscribers have access to playlists built around a genre or around a particular artist.
Rhapsody General Manager Brendan Benzing says the move comes in response to the growing number of users that use their mobile phones as their main point of interaction with the serveice. ?Curation and editorial content has been the cornerstone of Rhapsody since its inception, and we?ve brought it forward in an intuitive and engaging way for our iOS devices.?
Social features are also available in this version of the application, as users can share their favorite tracks and albums with friends. Music can be downloaded for offline play, saving on cellular data usage, and tracks can be marked as favorites for later repeated streaming.
?We?re more than a ?search/find/play? service. Let?s face it?that search bar can be intimidating when you can listen to virtually any song in the world. So, we guide listeners through that massive catalog by introducing them to new music and old favorites via curated editorial programming,? added Benzing, via a company release. ?It?s like the difference between shopping at Nordstrom versus Costco.?
Rhapsody isn?t the only music streaming service that has improved its mobile offering. For instance, Sony Music Unlimited recently launched offline listening and higher quality streams. Both updates confirm the importance of offering more features to mobile users to keep their attention in an increasingly crowded mobile landscape ? a genre that now has to compete with Apple?s own iTunes Radio, which was announced back in June.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Motorola/Google s Tech Development Strategy Starts to Emerge
Motorola invented the flip phone but its mobile offerings lagged in recent years
When Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2011,? big changes were in store for the ailing cell phone maker. Thousands lost their jobs as part of the restructuring. Meanwhile, Google brought in top officials from DARPA to reenergize Motorola?s moribund mobile technology.
Regina Dugan who headed the agency and her lieutenant Kaigham Gabriel set about injecting DARPA?s fleet-footed technology development approach into Motorola?s more deliberate culture.
Motorola?s Advanced Technology and Projects Group, which Dugan now leads, does not even call itself a research organization. Instead, like DARPA, it has started to structure projects to demonstrate avant-garde technologies that are just beginning to make the transition from laboratories pursuing basic science.? Projects will rope in investigators from other companies and universities, even more than Motorola researchers, to pursue prototypes for communications and information technologies that incorporate advances beyond simply making a cell phone a few millimeters thinner.
Toward that goal, the company is announcing on June 19th a collaboration with eight of the top public and private research universities.? Motorola negotiated a common agreement for conducting joint research that would allow the company to initiate a project rapidly with one or more universities.
A so-called master agreement between a single university and a company that provides boilerplate provisions for multiple research projects at a single school is routine.? What distinguishes the Motorola effort is that it is a? standard agreement that lays the groundwork for collaborative projects with multiple schools.
It can take up to a year to negotiate a corporate-academic agreement with a single university, which would hamper the urgency that the advanced technology group wants to bring to these efforts. ?A technical project leader can reach out to researchers,? Gabriel says. ?They can identify what the scope of work is, what?s the duration, what?s the expense.? We?re assuming that it takes less than 30 days and then we?re off and running, no additional work is required?
Motorola signed with California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Texas A&M University, and Virginia Tech University. The universities do not receive any funding up front, only when a project is initiated.
Gabriel gave an example from an ongoing effort of the type of project that might be contemplated under the new agreement. Motorola is investigating whether the emerging technology of 3D printing might be used by consumers to customize their cell phones. ?To what extent can I, at the last minute, make the back of the phone or the front or have certain functional as well as aesthetic elements that are part of the phone?? he asks. Current 3D finished parts do not meet commercial standards for product finish or durability. Gabriel speculated that a? small company on the East Coast might have created an innovative ink and a university in the Midwest might have devised a novel printable structural material. ?As part of a project we would go out to a company and a university and pull them in to to improve 3D printing,? Gabriel says.
It remains to be seen whether there is blowback as to whether Motorola/Google is trying to capture the best and brightest among IT researchers for its internal needs. But Fred Farina director of Caltech?s offfice of technology transfer did not seem worried. ?We?re open to Intel doing the same thing and IBM doing the same thing.? Just because they [Motorola] came and agreed on something and they were the first company to do this on the? IT side, I would say to other companies ?bring it on? and we will work with you as well.?
Others praised the flexibility that Motorola brought to the process after having dealt with companies that wished to dictate stringent contractual terms that could, say, hinder a researcher?s ability to publish in academic journals. ?Everybody?s goals were aligned, says Sam Liss, Harvard?s director of business development.
?I really enjoyed this negotiation because of its openness, says Lesley Millar, director of the office of technology management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ?It was very candid, on the table, let?s get out there and address the issues one by one,?
The agreement specifies that Google has the option to negotiate exclusive licensing of a technology for particular uses that it has funded the university to develop.? It does not impede researchers from publishing, but? lets Motorola review the final manuscript to ensure that it contains no confidential information.
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
Development not at cost of environment: Expert (Lead) - Prokerala
Kochi (Kerala), June 5
Noted ecologists and green activists Wednesday cautioned the government against aiming 8-9 percent GDP (gross domestic product) annual growth at the cost of environment and sought a balanced approach towards sustainable development for a equitable society.
"Alarming urbanisation and rapid westernisation with their concomitant extravaganza and wasteful consumption are the new challenges we are facing. Development cannot be for the privileged at the cost of the deprived who have as much right to better quality of life," former state chief conservator of forests M. Manoharan said at a seminar held to mark World Environment Day in this port city on the Malabar coast.
Noting that environment and society have many peculiarities, Manoharan said though India was blessed with rich biodiversity and abundant natural resources, meeting the needs of over 1.2-billion people was a major challenge, as fruits of development, including education, healthcare, jobs, housing and infrastructure have not reached about 70 percent of the population living in rural areas across the country.
"Majority of villages and urban areas face acute shortage of drinking water and other needs, including farming activity. About 300 million people are yet to get electricity in their homes despite the national rural electrification programme, millions of youth remain jobless or under employed despite the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and about 50 percent of the children are malnourished in spite of many healthcare programmes under the National Rural Health Mission," Manoharan noted.
Asserting that every developmental activity needed infrastructure, trained and skilled manpower and investments, the state electricity regulatory board chairman said it had to be sustainable with least adverse impact on environment.
"Clamouring for abandoning developmental projects, highlighting only their adverse impact will not solve the socio-economic problems of our society. Changes in policies and strategies of environmental movements with changes in political governance or proponents of projects will erode the credibility of such movements," Manoharan pointed out.
Admitting that any development would have some cost and benefit as well as adverse impact, the former IFS officer said sustainable strategies for implementing developmental projects was the only way forward for least adverse environmental impact.
"Projects for conservation of natural resources and human environment prepared without consulting their custodians and addressing problems of the affected people will not have social acceptance for implementation," Manoharan observed.
In this context, the regulatory official hoped policy makers, judiciary, executive and other stakeholders, including activists would work together for viable solutions and sustainable development in a democracy.
Earlier in the day, conservation evangelist M.K. Prasad was feted and honoured on the occasion by hundreds of activists, students and members of non-government organisations (NGOs).
Popularly known as MKP, the octogenarian was instrumental in saving the Silent Valley tropical rain forest in this southern state during the seventies by spearheading a national movement against a hydro power project in the fragile bio-diverse hotspot in Idukki district, about 140 km from here.
In a fitting tribute to the yeomen services Prasad rendered to protect the rich flora and fauna heritage in the state, 98-year-old former Supreme Court judge and constitutional expert V.R Krishna Iyer honoured the evangelist on his 80th birthday and released a Festschrift, a collection of articles and essays on environment and society, by green experts.
"Though am I very old at 98 with poor eyesight and hearing, I came to the event venue to personally greet Prasad and acknowledge his contribution to the environment and his inspiring guidance to a generations of social activists, students, ecologists, naturalists and NGOs," Iyer said raising his voice that drew thunderous applause and standing ovation from the packed hall.
Among experts who participated in the event and spoke on Prasad's dedication to the noble cause were Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) director-general Sunita Narain, World Wide Fund (WWF) India's former chief executive Dilnavaz Variava, Sanctuary Asia editor and veteran naturalist Bittu Sahgal, Western Ghats ecology expert panel chairman Madhva Gadgil and Manoharan.
"I am touched and moved by the occasion though the credit goes to the fraternity and the large community that dwells in the midst of nature in harmony with its flora and fauna," an emotional Prasad told IANS later on the margins of the event./eom/710 words.
Source: http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a384075.html
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Obama email flap: White House defends top officials' use of 'secret' accounts
White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the Obama administration?s commitment to transparency after an Associated Press investigation showed that some of the president?s top political appointees are using ?secret? government e-mail accounts in a bid to avoid unwanted messages.
Most of the agencies the AP contacted had not replied to its questions about secret e-mail accounts three months after the news agency requested the information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The accounts in question, which are not published on agency websites, provide an alternate way for top officials to communicate without having to sort through a mountain of spam.
The Labor Department?s initial response ? later rescinded ? was to ask the AP to pay more than $1 million to receive its e-mail addresses. The Health and Human Services Department initially turned over a list of 240 accounts that did not include Secretary Kathleen Sebelius?s alternate, unpublished e-mail address.
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Agencies that had not turned over lists of e-mail addresses include the Environmental Protection Agency, the Pentagon, and the Transportation, Treasury, Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, and Agriculture departments. So, the AP said, ?the scope of using the secret accounts across the government remains a mystery.?
The issue is a sensitive one, given a memo President Obama issued on his first full day in the White House pledging that his administration was "committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.? The document went on to say, "we will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."
At Tuesday?s White House briefing, Mr. Carney offered a spirited defense of the practice of officials' use of nonpublic e-mail addresses. ?This is a practice consistent with prior administrations of both parties,? he said. Having alternate e-mail accounts makes "eminent sense,? the press secretary said. He told of having his e-mail made public by his predecessor, Robert Gibbs, shortly before Carney assumed his current position. "I changed it so I wouldn?t be inundated with ? tons of e-mails and spam and the like.... But that is a very reasonable thing to do.?
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Carney disputed the AP?s use of the ?secret label? for unpublished e-mail addresses. ?The issue here is are these accounts ? these work accounts ? secret, and the answer is no, because they are subject to FOIA requests and they are subject to congressional inquiry, just like their public addresses,? he said.
He added, ?This administration has made significant strides in improving FOIA practices, compared with all of our predecessors?. [We] have disclosed more information, invoked FOIA exemptions less frequently, and answered more requests.?
The AP offered several reasons that top officials' use of alternate ? or secret ? e-mail addresses is problematic. The practice makes it harder to ensure that agencies are meeting their duty to turn over relevant documents in response to congressional investigations or civil lawsuits, the AP said. ?Secret accounts also drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions,? the report stated.
Court decisions on federal privacy rules have set a high bar for withholding public officials? records.
?An e-mail address given to an individual by the government to conduct official business is not private,? Aaron Mackey, a FOIA attorney with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Va., told the AP.
As if to emphasize that point, the AP decided to publish Secretary Sebelius's unpublished account address, despite requests not to do so, citing her oversight of Medicare, Medicaid, and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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