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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
10 Terrible Tech Frustrations My Toddler Will Never Have
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Curious Pictures, Producers Of Popular Disney, Nick & PBS Children's Television, Invests In Kids' App Maker PlaySquare, A Startup Building ?Touchable TV?
PlaySquare, a startup founded by a team of Emmy-winning children's television producers?interested in bringing "touchable TV" to the iPad, has found a new home and partner in their efforts thanks to an investment from Curious Pictures. The NYC-based production company, known for popular children's programming like Disney's "Little Einsteins," Nick Jr.'s "Team Umizoomi," HBO's "A Little Curious," as well as more adult-oriented films and games (including RockBand), has invested $660,000 into PlaySquare, and will fund up to an additional $1.5 million over the course of the next two years.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U8YOTh7YJq0/
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Friday, April 12, 2013
6 Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Negotiating Your Salary ...
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Want to get an edge on negotiating a raise at work?
You probably know you should prepare for the conversation, but what?s the best way to do that? Here are six surprising facts about negotiation that will help you walk out of your boss?s office with a raise in hand:
1. You actually have to ask
Negotiation is a conversation. But your manager is probably perfectly happy with things as they are, so to start that conversation, you have to ask.
Leaving things as they are saves your manager time and money, and she doesn?t have many incentives to give you what you may deserve or even initiate a discussion with you about what you want and need. You are the only person who?s motivated to change the status quo, so if you don?t ask for a change, it won?t happen.
2. Not asking means leaving real money on the table
We often don?t appreciate how much we might be leaving on the table over time by not asking or not asking for enough.
To illustrate this, consider the case of two 30-year-old candidates who are offered the same salary. Susy negotiates for $6,000 more, and Grace takes the original salary offer. If Susy stashes away just the additional $6,000 a year, she will have more than $350,000 more in savings than Grace (assuming a savings rate of 2.5 percent) at age 65. That?s a decent chunk of additional change Grace is missing out on!
See how much more you could be saving if you got a salary increase here. When you don?t negotiate, you?re leaving real money on the table.
3. You don?t have to assemble a broad array of arguments
Remember the phrase ?If the glove doesn?t fit, you must acquit?? While you don?t want to get yourself in that situation, this is a perfect example of how to get the result you want in a negotiation. Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to come up with 20 reasons why you deserve what you?re asking for. One or two strong arguments are actually more effective than throwing out four or five.
Do some thinking about the strongest reasons why you deserve what you want, and keep the focus of the conversation on those reasons.
Source: http://womanbizlife.com/2013/04/6-surprising-facts-you-didnt-know-about-negotiating-your-salary/
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South Korean island in North's crosshairs
For six decades, the residents of South Korea?s Baengnyeong Island have practically stared down the barrels of North Korea?s artillery. Located just 10 miles off the North?s Yellow Sea coast, this South Korean island is at the forefront of what some observers say could be the next military flashpoint.
Now, amid the recent uptick in bombast from Pyongyang, the regime has singled out the island for a possible attack. And, even as much of the rest of South Korea seems to remain unphased by the North?s rhetoric, South Koreans here are taking the recent threats seriously, if calmly.
?North Korea?s recent aggression, the fact that it does not recognize the maritime border in those waters, and South Korea?s pledge to respond to any provocation with force increases the likelihood of an incident in this area,? says Yang Moo-jin, a North Korea analyst at Seoul?s Dongguk University.
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If the North made good on its promise, it would be the latest in a series of battles around South Korea?s five Yellow Sea islands. Even during times of relative calm on the Korean peninsula, the navies of both nations have engaged in deadly skirmishes. In 2010, a South Korean naval ship sank not far off Baengnyeong?s shore: The South later determined it was struck by a North Korean torpedo, resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors. And later that year, neighboring Yeongpyeong Island was shelled by the North?s military, killing four South Korean soldiers and civilians.
That incident hit close to home for many of Baengnyeong?s 5,500 residents. Since then, new fortifications on the island have been built, and South Korea?s military has bolstered its presence there. Officials on the island estimate that troop numbers now hover around 4,000, but the actual total is a military secret.
The island is prepared, says Kim Jin-guk, who heads Baengnyeong?s Civil Defense Force.
?Many of the locals say they feel safe because we have close to 90 bomb shelters on the island and we have a large number of soldiers and marines stationed here," Mr. Kim says. ?This might make Baengnyeong Island more safe than some other parts of the mainland.?
Last month, Pyongyang?s official Korea Central News Agency reported that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un ordered troops on a military base just across the sea from Baengnyeong to take aim at the island if war breaks out with the South and "engulf the island with flames." The Civil Defense Force?s Kim says despite that directive, residents remain calm and, to his knowledge, no one has fled the island.
?I trust that the military would protect us,? says Park Dong-sik, the owner of a hotel on Baengnyeong Island. ?The situation is very tense, but I would never leave the island because of North Korea?s threats.?
While Pyongyang escalates the belligerence of its daily diatribes directed at Seoul and Washington, most South Koreans remain unmoved by the rhetoric. Some observers say this apathy is a coping mechanism.
?It?s a part of their psyche,? says analyst Jasper Kim. ?You either ignore the noise from North Korea, or you simply go crazy.?
An empty road connecting the KIC (Kaesong industrial complex) with the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) is reflected in sunglasses of a South Korean soldier standing guard at the ... more? An empty road connecting the KIC (Kaesong industrial complex) with the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) is reflected in sunglasses of a South Korean soldier standing guard at the South's CIQ, just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul April 10, 2013. South Korea said on Wednesday it has asked China, North Korea's only major ally, to rein in the hermit state and has raised its surveillance after the North moved at least one long-range missile in readiness for a possible launch. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) less? ?Mr. Kim, who heads the Asia-Pacific Global Research group in Seoul, says that Koreans have always lived in range of the North?s guns, but have had little choice but to accept the reality of the situation no matter how grave it might seem.
?It?s like living next to a nuclear power plant, you know that there is a small likelihood that something could go terribly wrong, but you don?t want to question it on a daily basis, because then you start questioning why you are there in the first place,? Kim says.
Still, the barrage of threats might be taking its toll on Baengnyeong?s residents, where tourism, the island's main source of income, is down. For some, like Lee Hwan-sun, the heightened tensions in the Yellow Sea means he cannot earn a living.
?I used to take my fishing boat out about five minutes from the port,? he says. ?But now, because of the situation here, I wouldn?t dare go out that far.?
?We?re scared of Kim Jong-un, he?s unpredictable, he?s worse than his father,? says one local woman in her 70s, who did not want to give her name.
Though most South Koreans are not panicking, there are signs that they are growing tired of the North?s rhetoric. Since the 2010 incidents, the South Korean government has faced criticism for not reacting more strongly to such incidents. That has prompted new President Park Geun-hye to give the Ministry of Defense carte blanche in the event of another North Korean military provocation. This in turn increases the probability of the current war of words turning into a firefight, says analyst Kim.
?They [the South Korean government] have created a broad definition of what a provocation is from North Korea,? Kim says. ?Something very small could demand a military countermeasure by the other side and that?s where problems can arise.?
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Finishing school, Chinese style
Be polite even though I'm super rich and busy? Sara Jane Ho puts China's very important people to a global test.?
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Sara Jane Ho, a well-groomed young woman from Hong Kong, has just launched what she calls Beijing?s first ?high end boutique finishing school? to teach China?s nouveau riche how to behave.
Good manners are not necessarily deeply instilled in your average Chinese citizen, and here I am being as polite as Ms. Ho teaches her students to be. But as she points out, only 50 years ago, people here ?were fighting to get to the front of the food ration line, for survival. They were not thinking of manners.?
Today, though, wealthy Chinese businesswomen, housewives, and ladies of leisure are anxious to learn the social skills of their Western counterparts. And for a cool $15,000 for a 12-day course, Ho will initiate them into the mysteries of foreign etiquette at her Institute Sarita.
She has the background ? both a business degree from Harvard and an etiquette diploma from the Institute Villa Pierrefeu, a Swiss finishing school ? and she covers all the bases.
One moment her clients, gathered in Ho?s plush offices in the Park Hyatt Residences in downtown Beijing, will be learning what ?black tie? means; the next moment they are practicing the correct pronunciation of ?Louis Vuitton? or being given the ?Introduction to Expensive Sports? course, which explains why they ought to enjoy horseback riding.
Predictably, perhaps, for women accustomed to eating even the grandest banquet with a simple pair of chopsticks, laying a Western table and learning how to handle knives and forks are especially puzzling skills. Nor does Ho make it easy: Her students have to remember such arcane details as the difference between the fork for extracting snails from their shells and the fork used to eat oysters.
But Ho says she also hopes to give etiquette a deeper meaning, to teach ?the philosophy behind the mechanics.?
?Good manners go along with good morals,? she preaches, with a nod to Confucius. ?Virtuous people do not commit murder ? and nor do they behave in obnoxious ways when they travel.?
In the end, she points out, good manners are the same the world over once you get past such questions of which hand you should hold your fork in. ?Good manners means respect for other people,? says Ho, and that is something that some of China?s new rich find even harder to learn than how to distinguish a Californian Chardonnay from a Bordeaux claret.
?I tell them [my clients] that they have to treat people as people no matter who they are speaking to,? she says. ?You are not above other people just because you are in a rush or have more money. But that takes a long time to learn.??
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/csmonitor/globalnews/~3/OvY17L2r11o/Finishing-school-Chinese-style
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Retired star found with planets and debris disc
Apr. 9, 2013 ? The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.
The team of scientists who made the discovery publishes their results in the Oxford University Press journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
After billions of years steadily burning hydrogen in their cores, stars like our Sun exhaust this central fuel reserve and start burning it in shells around the core. They swell to become subgiant stars, before later becoming red giants.
At least during the subgiant phase, planets, asteroids and comet belts around these 'retired' stars are expected to survive, but observations are needed to measure their properties. One approach is to search for discs of dust around the stars, generated by collisions between populations of asteroids or comets.
Thanks to the sensitive far-infrared detection capabilities of the Herschel space observatory, astronomers have been able to resolve bright emission around the star Kappa Coronae Borealis (? CrB, or Kappa Cor Bor), indicating the presence of a dusty debris disc. This star is a little heavier than our own Sun at 1.5 solar masses, is around 2.5 billion years old and lies at a distance of roughly 100 light years.
From ground-based observations, it is known to host one giant planet roughly twice the mass of Jupiter orbiting at a distance equivalent to the Asteroid Belt in our own Solar System. A second planet is suspected, but its mass is not well constrained.
Herschel's detection provides rare insight into the life of planetary systems orbiting subgiant stars, and enables a detailed study of the architecture of its planet and disc system.
"This is the first 'retired' star that we have found with a debris disc and one or more planets," says Amy Bonsor of the Institute de Plan?tologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, and lead author of the study.
'The disc has survived the star's entire lifetime without being destroyed. That's very different to our own Solar System, where most of the debris was cleared away in a phase called the Late Heavy Bombardment era, around 600 million years after the Sun formed."
Dr Bonsor's team used models to propose three possible configurations for the disc and planets that fit Herschel's observations of Kappa Cor Bor.
The first model has just one continuous dust belt extending from 20 AU to 220 AU (where 1 AU, or Astronomical Unit, is the distance between Earth and Sun). By comparison, the icy debris disc in our Solar System -- known as the Kuiper Belt -- spans a narrower range of distances, 30-50 AU from the Sun. In this model, one of the planets orbits at a distance of greater than 7 AU from the star, and its gravitational influence may sculpt the inner edge of the disc.
A variation on this model has the disc being stirred by the gravitational influence of both companions, mixing it up such that the rate of dust production in the disc peaks at around 70-80 AU from the star.
In another interesting scenario, the dust disc is divided into two narrow belts, centred on 40 AU and 165 AU, respectively. Here, the outermost companion may orbit between the two belts between a distance of about 7 AU and 70 AU, opening the possibility of it being rather more massive than a planet, possibly a substellar brown dwarf. "It is a mysterious and intriguing system: is there a planet or even two planets sculpting one wide disc, or does the star have a brown dwarf companion that has split the disc in two?" says Dr Bonsor.
As this is the first known example of a subgiant star with planets and a debris disc orbiting it, more examples are needed to determine whether Kappa Cor Bor is unusual or not.
"Thanks to Herschel's sensitive far-infrared capabilities and its rich dataset, we already have hints of other subgiant stars that may also have dusty discs. More work will be needed to see if they also have planets," says G?ran Pilbratt, ESA's Herschel project scientist.
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- Amy Bonsor, Grant M. Kennedy, Justin R. Crepp, John A. Johnson, Mark C. Wyatt, Bruce Sibthorpe and Kate Y. L. Su. Spatially resolved images of dust belt(s) around the planet-hosting subgiant ? CrB. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013; DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt367
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Google Play Store 4.0 redesign rolling out to Android phones and tablets today
Would news of an upcoming Google Play Store redesign completely blindside you? Of course not, but it's great to see it come to fruition sooner rather than later. The oft-whispered 4.0 update has now been officially acknowledged by Google and is ready for digital distribution starting today. What exactly is fresh and exciting about the new look? According to a blog post written by Play group product manager Michael Siliski, it focuses on bigger images, grouping together similarly themed content and offering new recommendations as you move down the page. Checkout has also been simplified just a tad. The update will be available for any phone or tablet running Android 2.2 or better, and it will begin rolling out today worldwide -- with such a hefty drain on Google's servers, however, the company warns that it may be a few weeks before it arrives on your particular device.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/google-play-store-4-0-redesign-rolling-out-to-android-phones-and/
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