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Friday, November 30, 2012
'Fiscal cliff' reality check: Are US taxes low or high?
As Washington confronts the 'fiscal cliff' and seeks a deal to reduce the deficit, one key issue is the tax rate. Comparatively, US taxes are low, but politically, raising them is a nonstarter.
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, about how middle class Americans would see their taxes go up if Congress fails to act to extend the middle class tax cuts. The president said he believes that members of both parties can reach a framework on a debt-cutting deal before Christmas.
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EnlargeAt the heart of the current debate over the so-called ?fiscal cliff? is a fundamental question: Are US budget deficits so high because the government spends too much or because Americans are paying too little in taxes?
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Or is the answer a bit of both?
Something has to give. Both President Obama and Republicans in Congress agree the country must take steps to reduce budget deficits, even as it?s also wise to soften the impact of the fiscal cliff ? the negative impact of tax hikes and spending cuts that are currently slated to go into effect on Jan. 1.
One lens on the debate is global ? checking how the US compares with other advanced economies. Such a check-up gives some useful context to the debate, even though the exercise isn?t meant to imply that the US should mimic other nations.
The upshot: Judged by global comparison, the US is taxed relatively lightly, so much so that the country could close its deficit over the next decade entirely via tax hikes, while still keep its tax revenue below European levels.
But America also appears to have a spending problem ? notably when it comes to health care ? over the longer term. And just because American taxes are on the low end of the scale doesn?t mean that raising taxes would be easy for the economy to bear.
Another big lesson from overseas: America isn?t alone when it comes to having chronic budget deficits. It has company from Japan and many European nations. The point here is that higher taxes alone do not guarantee balanced budgets. One still must spend appropriately.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that in 2010 American individuals and businesses paid taxes (federal, state, and local) that amounted to 24.8 percent of US gross domestic product. That compares with 33.8 percent of GDP for the OECD overall, encompassing more than 30 advanced economies.
That?s a big gap. Nine percentage points of GDP, to be precise.
And every other large advanced economy in the world ranks higher than the US in the percentage of GDP paid in taxes. On the OECD list, only Chile and Mexico have lower overall taxes as a share of GDP (about 20 percent and 19 percent, respectively).
Democrats can point to this as evidence that higher taxes should be part of the solution.
In fact, although this idea is politically unpalatable, Congress could close America?s budget deficits over the rest of this decade entirely through tax hikes ? and America would still have below-average taxes among OECD nations.
As an illustration, consider that Obama's most recent budget plan (which he proposed in February) envisions bringing deficits down to 3 percent of GDP at the end of the decade through relatively modest changes to current policy: some spending restraint and some tax hikes that amount to about 1 percent of GDP. So, operating from the Obama template, even if you eliminated the plan?s spending restraint, the tax hikes needed to eliminate deficits altogether wouldn?t be large enough to push US taxes up to 34 percent of GDP.
OK, we?ll get real now. Politically that scenario is a nonstarter. The presidential election was a contest between Mitt Romney, who wanted to keep taxes low for all Americans, and Obama, who pledged to keep taxes low for 98 percent of households ? while raising them modestly for the rich.
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Missing Model Kara Nichols' Picture Surfaces On Escort Website
Colorado police said a recent online escort ad, featuring a photo of Kara Nichols, was not placed by the 19-year-old aspiring model who disappeared nearly seven weeks ago.
"Our investigators became aware of that posting and followed up on that lead. They were able to determine that someone else had used the photos of Kara for their own ads. Kara was not involved in posting the ads or with those folks. Someone simply grabbed those photos online and used them for their own purposes," El Paso County Sheriff's Office Lt. Jeff Kramer told The Huffington Post.
The picture was recently discovered by police on a Las Vegas-based escort website. Other sites ran stories suggesting Nichols could be working as a prostitute.
"Is missing teen Kara Nichols a prostitute in Las Vegas?" asked Gather. While Examiner reported: "Missing Colorado teen Kara Nichols has resurfaced in Las Vegas, apparently, as a prostitute."
Neither, however, turned out to be the case.
"It is not uncommon at all for these escort-type businesses to fish around the internet and find photos of other folks to use for their advertisements," Kramer said.
In regards to Nichols' disappearance, Kramer said police are still following up on leads. "We are continuing to identify a number of people who knew Kara or are friends with her," he said.
Nichols was last seen in Colorado Springs on Oct. 9, the same day as the last call from her cell phone at 11:45 p.m.
Police said Nichols was traveling to Denver for a modeling job with two unidentified women. It is unclear if she arrived and her current whereabouts are a mystery.
Police have interviewed one of the women traveling with Nichols, but have not released her name, an they are still looking for the second woman.
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According to Nichols' Facebook page and Model Mayhem profile (NSFW), she has been modeling since February 2012.
"Although I'm new to it, modeling is something I am very passionate about and I take my work seriously," her profile reads. "Currently I'm working on building my portfolio so I'm always looking for modeling opportunities in my area."
Kara Nichols' is a white female, 5-foot 8-inches tall, 120 pounds, with blond hair and green eyes. Her family has launched the "Help Us Find Kara Nichols" Facebook page to help spread the word online. Anyone with information about Nichols? whereabouts should call Detective Cliff Porter at (719) 520-7227.
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HIV/AIDS in Charlottesville: Testing and Services | UVA Health - Home
HIV/AIDS doesn?t get as many headlines as it did in the early ?80s, yet 33.4 million people around the world are living with it. ?With World AIDS Day on December 1 approaching, we asked Kathryn Dort, a nurse practitioner with the Ryan White Program, to answer some common questions about HIV/AIDS in Charlottesville, nationally and globally.
Get Tested for HIV
When: Dec. 3, 2012, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: University Hospital, Dining Conference Rooms
Testing is free and confidential. You?ll get results within 20 minutes.
How common is HIV in Charlottesville?
It can take years for HIV symptoms to appear. Get tested to know your status.
We follow the national trends. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an equal opportunity virus.? Newborn babies, women, seniors, teens and people of all races and nationalities can have HIV. The prevalence of the virus in different groups varies (as it does for other diseases), but it can affect anyone.
The greatest increase in new infections is in people ages 13-29. It?s hard to engage them and get them to seek appropriate medical care.
What services does the Ryan White Program offer for HIV patients?
Ryan White was the Indiana teenager who had hemophilia and got HIV from a blood transfusion.? His struggle to be accepted in a public school with HIV/AIDS helped educate the public about HIV.
He died in 1990, the same year Congress passed the Ryan White Care Act.? This legislation covers primary health care and support services that help HIV-infected individuals ? especially low-income, uninsured and underinsured men, women and children ? have access to appropriate medical care and medications. Our clinic services continue to grow. We offer:
- Primary care
- Coordination with other medical specialists
- OB/GYN care for women
- Pediatric HIV specialty care
- Medication assistance
- Dental care
- Nutrition support
- Psychiatrists, psychologists and substance abuse support and counseling
Some of the Ryan White program?s patients travel hundreds or even thousands of miles for HIV care in Charlottesville. What is it about UVA?s program that makes people willing to travel long distances???
I believe it is because our clinic is a safe and caring place to get medical and psychological support. Everyone here is here because they care about the disease and the people affected by the disease. We offer help not only for their infection, but also with combating AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.
People living with HIV confront stereotypes and rejection on a daily basis out in the community based on assumptions of what HIV is and who is infected. The negative attitudes can even come from medical professionals, religious groups, family and friends. The stigma of who gets infected includes race, sexual characteristics, physical appearance and even gender.
Does the Ryan White program have a relationship with other local community organizations such as the AIDS Services Group (ASG)?
We rely heavily on the support that the ASG and other agencies provide. We work with them and the Charlottesville/Albemarle Health Department to provide free HIV testing, outreach and education. ASG provides community and psychological support and links people to medical care.
In the 80s, HIV was often ?a death sentence. What does it mean now to be diagnosed?
It means you have a chronic illness that needs appropriate medical care and treatment, including medications called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). With early and appropriate care, you can live a long and healthy life.
Does being diagnosed with HIV mean you?ll eventually get AIDS?
No. There are very effective medicines to treat HIV. When people are diagnosed with AIDS, that means HIV has affected their immune system to the point it can no longer fight off diseases that a healthy immune system would. This usually occurs because the person:
- Was not diagnosed early in the disease process
- Chose to not get medical care
- Couldn?t access appropriate care
- Couldn?t take medications as prescribed
What?s the most common way U.S. residents get HIV?
Unprotected sexual encounters with someone who has HIV and is not being treated. HIV is spread through blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk or other fluids containing blood.
Are there any common misconceptions about AIDS and HIV you hear through patients or in the community?
- Beliefs that HIV can be cured ? through specific sex acts or new medicines ? are unfounded. There is no cure for HIV. HAART can reduce the presence of the virus but not eliminate it. Even with effective treatment, HIV can accelerate the aging process. It continues to impact the person?s immune system and can cause psychological impairments such as early dementia and depression. It also puts infected persons at a higher risk for certain cancers.
- Young women report they have anal sex in order to avoid pregnancy. This is very risky behavior. HIV can be in the blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid or vaginal fluid, The lining of the rectum is thin and may allow the virus to enter the body more readily. Condoms break more easily during this type of sexual encounter.
- Many people think they can look at a person and tell if they have the virus. People can have HIV and look and feel well for many years.
Why should someone get tested for HIV?
A better question is, why not get tested?
People with HIV often have no symptoms for years. Meanwhile, their immune system weakens, and they can transmit the infection to others. Studies show the earlier people infected with HIV get into appropriate care, the better the health outcome.
The testing experience includes education about risk factors. Even if this information is not helpful to you, share it with someone you love to help them stay uninfected.
If you have HIV, how much do condoms reduce the risk of giving it to someone else?? What else can you do to reduce your risk??
Follow these guidelines:
- Get tested. The CDC recommends everyone between 13-64 be offered HIV testing in any health care setting at least once. Pregnant women should be tested for HIV as part of the initial prenatal testing and again in the third trimester with each pregnancy. People with high-risk behaviors should be tested yearly.
- If you?re infected, seek medical care so you can begin HAART. HAART can reduce HIV transmission. Studies of mother-to-child transmission show the use of HAART in the mother during pregnancy virtually eliminated HIV transmission to the infant. HAART use in Africa with couples where only one person had HIV was associated with a 92 percent reduction in HIV transmission. ?Although HAART reduces the viral load in blood and vaginal or seminal fluid, it does not eliminate the virus from the system.
- Discuss your HIV and other STD history/status with your partner and use condoms. Studies of couples where only one partner is infected show latex condoms are highly effective at preventing infection. The key is consistent and correct use of them. While condoms aren?t 100 percent effective, the main reason they fail is incorrect or inconsistent use, not failure of the condom itself. Using oil-based lubricants can weaken the latex, causing the condom to break. Use water-based lubricants.
In June 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir) for uninfected individuals having sexual activity with HIV-infected partners. Although the drug can help prevent transmission, individuals should still follow these other tips and talk to their healthcare providers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has promoted circumcision as a way for heterosexual men to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV. Is it really effective? Is this a compelling reason for parents in the U.S. to consider circumcising their newborns?
In August, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) updated its policy on male circumcision. Research shows it has clear health benefits, including lower risks of acquiring HIV, genital herpes, human papilloma virus and syphilis. Circumcision also reduces the risk of:
- Penile cancer
- Cervical cancer in sexual partners
- Urinary tract infections in the first year of life
The Ryan White Program raises money so patients can go to HIV Family Camp.? What exactly is the camp, and why is it so meaningful for these families??
For many children, whether they have HIV or someone in their family does, life with the virus can be very isolating. Our clinic has held a weekend Family Camp at Camp Holiday Trails every spring since 2005. Participation grows every year. We started the camp to give children a safe and happy place to go and enjoy time with their families. It removes them from the day-to-day stressers of chronic illness, and they get the opportunity to just be children. The camp is free to participants, supported by generous donations from the community and from grants from the?BAMA Works Fund?(Dave Matthews Band), among others.
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London?s Onefinestay Nabs Plum District VP Jackson Hull: File It Under ?Silicon Valley Comes To London For The Realism?
London-based 'unhotel' startup, onefinestay, has bagged a West Coast exec as its CTO, convincing him and his family to relocate all the way from the Valley to rainy old London. Jackson Hull, the CTO in question, has clocked up 15 years' tech industry experience. Most recently he was leading the engineering and product teams at San Francisco-headquartered Plum District.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wSFz8eYCG8s/
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Obama Turns His Back On Silicon Valley - Business Insider
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Silicon Valley tech businesses overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama with their dollars.
Here's a table, from Nate Silver:
Then, during election day, Obama won the Bay Area with an epic 49 point margin.
Here's another Silver chart:
So, you'd think that these companies (and the voters who work for them) would have the newly re-elected Obama administration's ear, right?
Maybe not.
In mid-September, dozens of tech companies, including Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and Xerox, signed a letter asking Congress and the President to pass a bill called the?STEM Jobs Act of 2012.
STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and math.?The purpose of the bill is to increase the number of visas available by up to 55,000?for immigrants with advanced degrees in those fields.
Yesterday, President Obama put out a statement saying he will not support the bill.The reason: In exchange for making thousands of new visas available to STEM workers, the STEM Act abolishes another visa program, called the "Diversity Visa" program, which distributes 50,000 visas through a lottery to a pool of nearly 15 million applicants with high school degrees.
The Diversity Visa program drives some people completely bonkers.
Yale law school professor Peter Schuck, who describes himself as "militantly moderate," is one such person.
In a 2011 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, he called for a swap similar to the one proposed in the STEM Act.
First Schuck mocks the program for its lottery process, which, in 2011, resulted in 50,000 people being told they got visas when in fact they had not.
Then he hits a bigger point, arguing that the Diversity Visa program "imposes a cost ? an opportunity cost."
"The fact that some of the 50,000 lottery winners will turn out to be desirable immigrants is an accident, not a policy."
"The solution is straightforward: Abolish the program and use those 50,000 visas (or more) to promote carefully defined national interests, particularly in more high-skilled immigrants who, many studies show, produce jobs, innovation and new businesses."
Indeed, there is plenty of evidence that highly-skilled immigrants contribute heavily to Silicon Valley.
Check out this chart from Vivek Wadhwa at Duke University, showing that 52.4 percent of Silicon Valley firms are founded by immigrants:
Obama's White House won't have it.?
In a statement, the administration says it "strongly supports legislation to attract and retain foreign students who graduate with advanced STEM degrees" but that it "does not support narrowly tailored proposals that do not meet the President's long-term objectives with respect to comprehensive immigration reform."
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Frank Olson Family Sues CIA Over Bioweapons Expert's Mysterious 1953 Death
WASHINGTON ? The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel ? not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
Sons Eric and Nils Olson of Frederick, Md., sought unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in federal court, but their lawyer, Scott D. Gilbert, said they also want to see a broad range of documents related to Olson's death and other matters that they say the CIA has withheld from them since the death.
Olson was a bioweapons expert at Fort Detrick, the Army's biological weapons research center in Maryland. Their lawsuit claims the CIA killed Olson when he developed misgivings after witnessing extreme interrogations in which they allege the CIA committed murder using biological agents Olson had developed.
The CIA had a program in the 1950s and `60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s.
Olson consumed a drink laced with LSD by CIA agents on Nov. 19, 1953, the suit says. Later that month, after being taken to New York City purportedly for a "psychiatric" consultation, Olson plunged to his death.
At the time ? when Eric and Nils Olson were 9 and 5 years old, respectively ? the CIA said he died in an accident and did not divulge to his family that Olsen had been given LSD.
But in 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released a report on CIA abuses that included a reference to an Army scientist who had jumped from a New York hotel days after being slipped LSD in 1953. Family members threatened to sue, but President Gerald Ford invited the family to the White House, assuring them they would be given all the government's information. CIA Director William Colby handed over documents and the family accepted a $750,000 settlement to avert a lawsuit.
In an email, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said that while the agency doesn't comment on matters before U.S. courts, "CIA activities related to MK-ULTRA have been thoroughly investigated over the years, and the agency cooperated with each of those investigations." She noted that tens of thousands of pages related to the program have been released to the public.
In a statement, Eric Olson said that the CIA has not given a complete picture of what happened to his father.
"The evidence shows that our father was killed in their custody," he said. "They have lied to us ever since, withholding documents and information, and changing their story when convenient."
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Hill's clutch shot pushes Pacers past Lakers 79-77
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? George Hill's high-arching shot over Dwight Howard went in with 0.1 seconds left, and the Indiana Pacers withstood Kobe Bryant's 40-point performance and the Lakers' last-minute rally for a 79-77 victory over Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Hill scored 19 points and hit that enormous clutch shot for the Pacers, who won their third straight road game over the Lakers after losing 11 consecutive regular-season games since Staples Center opened in 1999.
The Pacers' sturdy defense stifled the Lakers' up-tempo offense for most of the night, turning the game into an ugly grind before the thrilling finish.
Bryant hit a tying 3-pointer with 24.5 seconds left and produced the 114th 40-point game of his career despite playing with an apparent case of the flu for the Lakers, who dropped to 2-3 under new coach Mike D'Antoni.
David West scored 16 points and Paul George had 12 in the opener of Indiana's four-game road trip.
The Lakers flirted with the lowest-scoring game and worst shooting percentage in franchise history before scoring eight straight points in the waning minutes, tying it at 74 on Howard's dunk with 1:56 to play. After West made one free throw, Howard and Metta World Peace combined to miss four straight free throws, dropping Los Angeles' performance at the line to 23 for 43.
After Hill made a running shot, Bryant hit a 3-pointer in front of the Lakers' bench to tie it.
The Pacers wound down the clock for Hill, who beat Pau Gasol off the dribble and arched his shot over the leaping Howard, who blocked four shots and scored 17 points despite 3-of-12 shooting at the free throw line.
Before outscoring the rest of his team combined, Bryant missed the Lakers' morning shootaround when he fell ill. He spent the day in bed, drinking fluids and listening to Bob Marley, before giving another high-scoring performance, albeit with 10 turnovers and 12-for-28 shooting.
The Lakers returned from a three-game trip for a three-game homestand, their final multigame stretch at home before Christmas. After playing six games in a nine-day stretch earlier this month, the Lakers are clearly running near empty ? and they had little to give in the first half against Indiana.
The Pacers jumped to an early lead and hung on to it despite falling into a 1-for-23 shooting slump in the first half, playing more than 12 minutes with just one field goal. The Lakers couldn't take advantage, missing 14 of their 18 shots in the second quarter and repeatedly failing to move the ball at D'Antoni's preferred pace.
Bryant made five of his first six shots, emulating his many strong performances with the flu, but fell into a 1-for-10 slump before getting rolling again late in the third quarter while Los Angeles made a 13-2 run. Bryant had nine turnovers in the first three quarters, but also had 29 points ? more than his teammates' combined 28.
NOTES: The Pacers stay in California to face Sacramento and Golden State before stopping in Chicago on the way home from their trip. ... The Lakers handed out bobblehead dolls in the likeness of the late Chick Hearn, their beloved broadcaster who would have turned 96 on Tuesday. ... Ashton Kutcher, David Beckham, Landon Donovan, Kaley Cuoco, Gene Simmons, Shannon Tweed and Tenacious D band members Jack Black and Kyle Gass watched from courtside.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports that the SABRE hybrid (part air-breathing jet, part rocket) that is intended to power the Skylon single-stage-to-orbit space plane has passed its final technical demonstration test, and is now looking for money (only ?250m!) to prepare for manufacturing. If this goes ahead, travel into orbit from local airports (ideally, those close to the equator) will be possible. And quite cheaply. But might it have the same legal difficulties flying from U.S. airports as the Concorde did?"
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Medicaid expansion to cost states $8B in first 10 years
Cost of expansion (Kaiser)As governors ponder whether to expand their Medicaid programs to cover millions more low-income people under the federal health care law, a new study claims that states that hold out won't necessarily save that much money.
President Barack Obama's health care law asks states to expand their Medicaid programs?often the biggest line item in state budgets?to cover all residents whose incomes place them at or near the poverty line. (Most states' Medicaid programs currently cover only low-income children and their mothers.) In June, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government couldn't financially punish states that opt out of the expansion, giving governors the opportunity to say no.
After the ruling, the governors of eight states, most of them in the South, have announced they will not participate, while governors in five more states have said they are leaning toward not joining.
But a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that on average, states won't save that much money by opting out. That's because the federal government is picking up most of the tab for the expansion, and also because states' Medicaid rolls will expand significantly even if they don't sign on since the law encourages more eligible adults and children to enroll.
If all 50 states states agree to the expansion, about 21 million new low-income, uninsured people are expected to enroll in the program at a total cost of $76 billion, the study says. If no states participate, an additional 5.7 million people will still join states' Medicaid rolls at a cost of $68 billion, because the law will encourage all eligible people to sign up. If all states participate, collectively they'll spend just $8 billion more than if they all opted out. (The study also estimates that $18 billion would be saved in uncompensated care under the expansion, but much of that savings would go to local governments, not states.)
The total cost of the Medicaid expansion will be $1 trillion over 10 years, with the federal government picking up 93 percent of that tab. After 2020, states will have to pay for 10 percent of the new Medicaid costs.
The costs varies widely state to state, which may explain?some governors' wariness of the program. A handful of states (Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New York and Vermont)?that have already expanded their Medicaid programs will actually save money under the new plan, because the federal government will offer higher matching funding. But the rest of the states will see their Medicaid costs go up by as much as 11 percent. On average, states' Medicaid spending will go up by 3 percent over 10 years if all states decide to participate.
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Facebook and Nokia partner to increase connections on-the-go
Using QR Codes to Deliver Maps Electronically - cartographers
are tapping into technology in the form of Quick Response Codes (QR
codes) to help promote, sell and deliver maps electronically. Ted
Florence discusses QR codes, what they are and how they are useful for
maps and map producers.?
10 Resources To Help You Get Started Programming with Python -
There's no question that if you want a head start in your career as a
GIS Analyst, programmer, or other technology professional that Python
programming is a must. Just look around on twitter, follow some geo
hacks on Google +, check out the developer resources, and attend a
GeoGeek meetup of WhereCamp and you'll hear about python.
Exploring Foursquare with The Explore foursquare map - A look at some clever mapping functionality available to users of the foursquare service
58% Use Location-based Apps Despite Privacy Concerns - A telephone poll of 1,000 Americans shows that many people are concerned about geolocation, which uses data from a computer or mobile device to identify a physical location
The Really Big List of Mapping, Geo location Mobile developer resources, APIs and Tools? - The Mobile Ecosystem... no question that mobile is huge and the opportunity for developers, in particular, geo developers! There's loads of developer resources on the web so to help the developer, here's a listing of just some of the fine dev resources, blogs, toolsets and more to consider when developing or porting your app to a smartphone or Tablet.
Mobile Technology Feature - Top 10 Business Apps for Android - Android has become one of the most popular mobile operating systems
in the world due to advanced software, competitive manufacturers, and an
app market that is filled with exciting and useful applications. Read
on for this fine Top 10 List compiled by tech writer, Blake Sanders
ArcGIS.com Mashup Tutorial with Flickr and Foursquare data -
Here's a simple "how to" tutorial on working with the free ArcGIS.com
to easily import KML or RSS data from Flickr and foursquare into ArcGIS
to create your own custom map mashup.
Most Users of Free Photo Apps Say Adding Cool Effects is Most Useful? - Adding cool effects to photos was rated as the most useful thing by more than half of consumers surveyed using free online photography services, according to CatchFree a free online service that helps people find the best free mobile and web applications to perform useful tasks.
10 Things That You Should Be Including In Your Press Release -
We'd like to share a short list of 10 items that anyone creating a
press release might/should consider including in their press release.?
Flickr GPS Photo Tag Tip? - Here's a tip for Flickr users who want to share their GPS information with their photos. note, in order to do this you'll need to be capturing photos using a GPS-enabled or GPS-aware camera (see you're smartphone hardware settings to ensure that GPS or location sharing is turned "ON)".?
Source: http://www.lbszone.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9467&Itemid=2
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Cossacks once again patrolling Moscow streets, ?We?re like Chuck Norris!?
Two Russian Cossacks, right, watch pedestrians passing by as they patrol a Moscow railway station (AP/Pavel Go??They've technically been around for centuries, but a small group of Cossacks recently returned to officially patrol the streets of Moscow.
We're like Chuck Norris!" Cossack patrol leader Igor Gulichev said, comparing his colleagues to the role made famous by Norris in the 1990's television sitcom "Walker, Texas Ranger."
According to the Russian 2010 census, some 650,000 citizens self-identified as Cossacks but only eight of the patrolman, originally heralded for their sword-fighting ability, have been selected to walk the streets of Moscow looking for beggars, drunks and illegally parked cars, according to the Associated Press.
But even as their modern role has shifted, the newly appointed Cossacks headed out to patrol in their traditional uniforms and fur hats. The AP says that along with actual crime fighting duties, the Kremlin hopes the return of the Cossacks will "promote conservative values and appeal to nationalists."
The political angle leads straight to the top of Russia's government. In 2005, Russian? President Vladimir Putin was inducted into the "Cossack Host," and bestowed the rank of Cossack colonel, a title once held by the country's imperial czars.
Gulichev said if his patrol passes this initial test they could eventually become armed and salaried auxiliary force. Currently, they are a volunteer force but do received free city bus passes.
An All-Russia Cossack Host with 400,000 members reporting directly to Putin will be launched by the end of the year.
And to those who point to their controversial past, which has included anti-Semitic, Catholic and Polish stances, Gulichey said the modern incarnation is no different than those famed Texas Rangers.
"They are just like Cossacks, and they work for the government, but they're welcomed with open arms," he said. "How come this should be allowed in America, but not in Russia, with our rich Cossack traditions?"
However, the first Cossack patrol did not yield substantial results. According to the AP, the patrol removed two elderly beggars, an unlicensed vendor selling socks and an old woman selling dried, wild mushrooms. The unlicensed vendor reportedly returned to his trading post shortly after the Cossacks departed.
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