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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Microsoft covers its mobile Office bases with Android, buys time
Microsoft's launch of Office Mobile for Android just a few weeks after the iPhone version illustrate how the software giant is gradually coming around to the reality that it may not be the big dog on post-PC platforms.
In the end, Microsoft Office Mobile for Android and iPhone are nice hedges should Windows Phone and Windows 8 fail to garner significant mobile share. Mary Jo Foley noted that Microsoft has a roadmap for stronger core Office apps for Android, iPhone and iPad, but appears to be giving those products some time possibly for the Windows mobile ecosystem to develop further.?
The Android and iPhone versions of Office are tethered to an Office 365 account and optimized for Word, Excel and PowerPoint editing. Selling Office outright on those platforms would be a better move.
But here's the catch. Microsoft wants the best Office experience on its mobile platforms, but needs more share. If Microsoft's mobile efforts on smartphones and tablets fail to develop garnering Office 365 subscriptions isn't a bad consolation prize.
What will be interesting to watch is the adoption of Office Mobile for Android and iPhone. Will Microsoft garner new cloud Office subscriptions or largely cater to existing customers?
Bottom line: Microsoft is a software vendor and can still make gobs of money with Office on any platform. The best bet for Microsoft is to spread its bets around.
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White House takes aim at Obamacare opposition's economic claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday shot back at critics who claim Obamacare is leading to higher healthcare costs, slower job growth and rising numbers of part-time workers, saying the latest economic statistics show none of those effects.
Nearly one-third of the sharp rise in part-time workers seen in employment numbers for June was due to federal employee furloughs caused by automated spending cuts, rather than employers shifting to part-time workers due to concern about President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, a senior administration official said.
The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, also predicted that July job numbers due on Friday would show a similar increase in part-time workers due largely to the furlough of 650,000 Defense Department employees.
Federal furloughs are the result of automated across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequester, which went into effect earlier this year after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to agree on a deficit-reduction package.
Republicans and other critics of Obamacare have cited the jump in part-time workers as evidence that employers have been cutting back on hours to avoid higher healthcare costs under Obamacare, which will require businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide health insurance in 2015.
The White House on Monday released data that it said shows no evidence that the law known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has accelerated healthcare costs, reduced full-time employment or punished small businesses including restaurants.
The data showed that personal expenditures on healthcare goods and services grew at 1.1 percent during the year ending in May, the lowest rate in 50 years measured by the inflation gauge known as personal consumption expenditures.
Alan Krueger, chairman of White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in a government blog posting that slower healthcare cost growth could remain for some time.
"The fact that the slowdown in cost growth reflects changes in both prices and utilization of medical care -- and that the slowdown is apparent in many different aspects of the healthcare system -- further suggests that structural changes are under way," Krueger said.
Figures released by the White House also showed slower growth in health insurance costs for small employers and a faster rate of job growth among businesses with low rates of employer healthcare coverage. Healthcare reform opponents have pointed to both groups as being hard hit by higher costs and slower job growth as a result of Obamacare.
(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Ken Wills)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-takes-aim-obamacare-oppositions-economic-claims-224258310.html
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Accused tipper to SAC hedge fund arrested in insider-trading probe
By Emily Flitter and Dan Levine
(Reuters) - A securities analyst accused of leaking secret information in 2009 about a potential partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft to an SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund manager and other traders was arrested and charged in California, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Sandeep Aggarwal, who worked as an analyst covering technology stocks before moving to India to start his own internet company, was arrested on Monday by FBI agents in San Jose while visiting the United States. He made his initial appearance in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud related to insider trading.
Aggarwal, 40, did not enter a plea to allegations that he passed non-public information to about a dozen hedge fund managers including SAC portfolio manager, Richard Lee, who pleaded guilty last week days before the hedge fund itself was indicted on Thursday in New York.
SAC spokesman Jonathan Gasthalter's declined to comment on Tuesday.
The hedge fund and its founder Steven Cohen, one of Wall Street's most successful investors, have been investigated by the FBI and market regulators for about a decade in a crackdown on insider trading.
Aggarwal, wearing jeans and a dark blue short-sleeved polo shirt in court, was ordered released on a $500,000 bond by magistrate judge Nandoor Vadas and told to appear Friday in federal court in New York, where prosecutors have won about 60 insider trading convictions in the past five years.
One of the conditions of Aggarwal's release was that he would have no contact with SAC Capital or with Lee, the former SAC employee he is accused of tipping. Aggarwal is a citizen of India with permanent U.S. residency status.
His lawyer Sanaz Nikaein told the court that her client was planning to cooperate with the FBI after agents first approached him in February and that his arrest had come as "a surprise to his attorney, to his wife and to himself."
Aggarwal's lawyer in New York, Sam Braverman, said he was reviewing the charges.
"Mr. Aggarwal will gladly come to New York to address the charges directly," Braverman said in an emailed statement.
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Aggarwal worked in 2009 as a research analyst covering technology at the firm Collins Stewart in San Francisco. He was quoted frequently by the press and even commented publicly on the possibility of a partnership between the internet company, Yahoo, and the computer company, Microsoft. He left Collins Stewart in March 2010.
Aggarwal is accused of tipping Lee and other hedge fund employees about private negotiations between the two companies for the partnership.
Collins Stewart was acquired by Canaccord Genuity in March 2012. A spokesman for Canaccord, Scott Davidson, said "we have cooperated fully with the investigation."
A statement by Microsoft on Tuesday said the company had "zero tolerance for insider trading, and we assisted the government with this investigation."
The criminal complaint against Aggarwal said he told "approximately 14 traders or portfolio managers at various hedge funds" details about the potential partnership.
According to the criminal complaint, Aggarwal told Lee his "best industry contact" who was a "senior guy at Microsoft" said the two companies had resumed their talks, and that senior executives from Yahoo were visiting Microsoft's headquarters, elevating the seriousness of the negotiations.
The former Microsoft employee, who is not identified in the complaint but is described as a long-time friend of Aggarwal's, is cooperating with the government.
The complaint said Aggarwal also gave the information to a trader at another hedge fund, which was not identified in the court document. A representative of the hedge fund later contacted Aggarwal's employer and reported the suspicion that Aggarwal was disseminating non-public information.
He also faces a civil suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The $14 billion SAC Capital has also been charged with securities fraud and wire fraud. The indictment said the firm fostered a corrupt business culture in which portfolio managers were encouraged to use any means possible to find an "edge" in stock trading.
The criminal charges, along with an administrative proceeding accusing SAC founder Cohen of failing to properly supervise his employees, are connected to 10 former SAC employees have been charged or implicated for insider trading.
"Like many others before him, Sandeep Aggarwal allegedly broke the law and provided material non-public information on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal," said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos. "When questioned by his employer about the source of the information, he lied."
(Reporting by Emily Flitter and Jonathan Stempel in New York and Dan Levine in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Bill Rigby in Seattle; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz and Grant McCool)
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Kerry builds a US-Arab superstructure to direct Israel-Palestinian talks - White House reservations
Kerry builds a US-Arab superstructure to direct Israel-Palestinian talks - White House reservations
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu?s willingness to ?do everything? to avoid giving the Palestinians a pretext for not turning up for their first encounter with Israeli negotiators in Washington Tuesday, July 30, bodes ill for Israel?s bargaining position right from the start. So too does his proposal to include jailed Israeli Arabs among the 104 Palestinian prisoners to be released. Several threats from Ramallah not to make the Tuesday date had their effect.
Netanyahu sent an open letter to the Israeli people Saturday night, July 27, explaining his ?incredibly difficult decision? to free the 104 prisoners as a gesture ahead of the renewal of peace talks. ?Sometimes prime ministers are forced to make decisions that go against public opinion ? when the issue is important to the country,? he wrote.
That letter arouses less sympathy than concern. It confirms the impression that the Palestinians only have to threaten to walk out of the negotiations in order to extort concessions from Israel, in the knowledge that US Secretary of State John Kerry or his ?special envoys? will move in fast to save the process.
If so, how far will Netanyahu go when the substantive talks begin? ?By including Israeli Arabs in the prisoner deal, is he saying that the Israeli Arab population is part of a future deal with the Palestinians and their regions are on the table for potential land swaps??
If so, he is handing out freebies far too early in the game.
Because, according to debkafile?s sources, the Tuesday meeting in Washington is just a preliminary step to prepare the procedures and modalities for the process. That is all Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and the prime minister?s political adviser Yitzhak Molcho, for Israel, and Yasser Abd Rabbo for the Palestinians will be asked to do in Washington.
For now, the terms of reference for the negotiations have yet to be determined and President Barack Obama has yet to sign?the formal letters of assurance promised to Netanyahu and the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.
There are reasons for this delay. Secretary Kerry wants to be certain that the talks will show real progress before he asks the president to offer formal assurances to the two leaders. There is another reason too.
debkafile?s Washington sources also report that although Obama gave Kerry a free hand for restarting the peace track, he is slowing the Secretary down with reservations of his own, especially with regard to the Secretary?s choices of special envoys to lead the four specialist negotiating tracks or mechanisms.
Leading candidate for the political mechanism is his longtime close adviser on Middle East issues Frank Lowenstein, former Senate Foreign Relations committee chief of staff who acted as policy advisor to Senator Kerry. Another candidate is Martin Indyk,?twice ambassador to Israel. It?is not clear which would be the senior.
The White House would prefer a member of the National Security Council rather than a State Department loyalist in the seat assigned to Indyk.
Tagged for the military-security track is retired Marine general John Allen, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan and former supreme commander of NATO.
An appointee of this high rank to supervise the negotiations on security matters is intended to give the US the leverage to dictate the pace of this track and override efforts by Israeli security and military officials to bring their will to bear.
The Israeli side will not like this appointment. ?
The third mechanism will deal with economic issues and the fourth, under the heading of general subjects, will be the framework for Arab League delegates, and especially Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to take a hand in the process and determining its outcome. ?
John Kerry has constructed an intricate edifice over and above the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a kind of US administration superstructure with Arab components, to stand over the Israeli government and its prime minister and the Palestinian Authority and its chairman.
Regardless of he powerful machine Kerry is building to steer the negotiating parties and bend them to Washington?s will, ?Netanyahu is already racing ahead to put before the cabinet meeting Sunday, July 28, a proposal for a popular referendum that will be called to approve an accord negotiated with the Palestinians. There is a long way to go before that point is reached ? if ever.
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Source: http://www.debka.com/article/23152/
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The new vacation budget-buster: taxes
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Leticia Baes, of the Phillipines, poses for a photo at the bases of the Statue of Liberty on July 4. Tourists spent $56.9 billion in New York, generating $10.9 billion in tax revenue for the state. That's $300 million more than Florida collected for its $71.5 billion in tourist spending.
Consumers may find it's getting tougher to stick to their travel budget.
It's not just pricey airfare, hotel rooms or car rentals, although those rates have been rising. The less-noticed budget buster: more taxes and fees levied on such purchases.
States, counties and cities continue to weigh taxes and surcharges aimed specifically at travelers:
- Effective July 1, Northern Virginia's "transient occupancy tax" on hotels rose 3 percent, to 8 percent total.
- Voters in Selma,Calif., will vote in November on whether to double the lodging tax there to 12 percent.
- In Orange County, Fla., lawmakers have proposed adding a $2-per-day car-rental surcharge.
"The trend is for more and more local jurisdictions to impose these," said Carol Kokinis-Graves, a senior writer analyst with tax advisory firm CCH.
State budget woes often trickle down to the local level in the form of cuts to local government. Extra charges on hotel rooms and car rentals are one way to make up for lost revenue or fund planned projects, she said.
They can make a big difference. According to the U.S. Travel Association, in 2011 both North Dakota and South Dakota tallied $2.6 billion in tourist spending. But North Dakota generated $415 million in tax receipts from those transactions?$133 million more than South Dakota.
Big windfall for the Big Apple
Tourists spent $56.9 billion in New York, generating $10.9 billion in tax revenue for the state. That's $300 million more than Florida collected for its $71.5 billion in tourist spending.
It doesn't hurt that locals are unlikely to pay the extra taxes in question. "This is certainly an area [of legislation] generally accepted by voters and policymakers as easy to pass," said Joe Bates, vice president of research for the Global Business Travel Association.
The result can be a lengthy list of state, county and local taxes and fees that pop up on the final travel bill. According to a 2012 GBTA study, the cost to rent a car in Denver, for example, includes the state sales tax (2.9 percent), a regional transportation district tax (1 percent), a scientific and cultural facilities district tax (0.1 percent) and a special tax to finance construction of the Colorado Convention Center (7.25 percent), as well as a flat $2 daily fee to fund transportation projects. Collectively, they add $8.31 to the typical daily cost to rent a car.
'It leaves travelers with a bit of a bad taste in their mouth'
Fees tend to surprise travelers. "Most people don't even think about it until they leave," said Jason Clampet, co-founder of travel advice site Skift.com. "You check out of the hotel or you return your car, and then you look at the line item. It leaves travelers with a bit of a bad taste in their mouth."
Businesses tend to be more aware than consumers of the impact of taxes on their budget, said Bates. They usually consider such charges when deciding where to hold a large staff meeting or conference. Taxes on travelers to Chicago are 81 percent higher than those in Fort Lauderdale, he said.
That's less useful for consumers set on a particular destination, although it's still possible to book to limit some taxes and fees.
The easiest switch is comparing costs across car rental locations, said Clampet. Airport pickup often entails more fees, something easily assessed at booking. (But some cities tack on fees regardless. Boston levies a $10 surcharge on all car rentals.)
Lodging is tougher. Some states, like Connecticut, assess lodging taxes at the state level, and prohibit additional local taxes. Most,however, give counties and cities leeway to add their own charges?which can be tough to track.
"Local tax information is notoriously difficult to find and maintain," said Kokinis-Graves. "There are still some local jurisdictions that do not have an online presence." Even online travel booking sites often hedge their bets, providing estimates of tax owed, with the caveat that local taxes and fees may be added at the time of travel. Travelers' best bet may be to leave extra room in their budget for the unexpected.
?By CNBC.com's Kelli B. Grant. Follow her on Twitter @KelliGrant.
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Apple, Google Agree On More SLP Vectorization
After making more widespread use of the Loop Vectorizer, developers at Apple in Google are at least agreeing that LLVM's SLP Vectorizer should be more widely-used as well.
The LLVM SLP Vectorizer was covered earlier this year on Phoronix (and benchmarked) with its premiere in LLVM 3.3. The SLP Vectorizer is about "Superworld-Level Parallelism" and works towards vectorizing straight-line code over LLVM's already present and proven Loop Vectorizer. The SLP Vectorizer can vectorize memory access, arithmetic operations, comparison operations, and other select operations.
For now in LLVM (3.3 and SVN), the SLP Vectorizer isn't the default but must be enabled via the -fslp-vectorize and -fslp-vectorize-aggressive compiler switches for LLVM/Clang. However, LLVM/Clang developers have been discussing enabling this option for at least the -O3 optimization level.
Earlier this month I wrote initially of the discussion about enabling the LLVM SLP Vectorizer. Apple's Nadav Rotem on Sunday morning reignited the discussion with a new mailing list post to highlight their latest test data.
Nadav Rotem wrote, "As you can see [from the new compiler benchmark results], there is a small number of compile time regressions, a single major runtime *regression, and many performance gains. There is a tiny increase in code size: 30k for the whole test-suite. Based on the numbers below I would like to enable the SLP-vectorizer by default for -O3."
Google's Chandler Carruth followed up with, "I also have some benchmark data. It confirms much of what you posted -- binary size increase is essentially 0, performance increases across the board. It looks really good to me. However, there was one crash that I'd like to check if it still fires. Will update later today (feel free to ping me if you don't hear anything.). That said, why -O3? I think we should just enable this across the board, as it doesn't seem to cause any size regression under any mode, and the compile time hit is really low."
So it seems many are in agreement with enabling the SLP Vectorizer by default for the -O3 optimization level but it's possible that the straight-line code vectorizer could also be enabled for other optimization levels too if this Google compiler engineer gets his way. This change is likely for LLVM/Clang 3.4, which will likely be released around the end of the calendar year.
Coming up soon will be new LLVM 3.4 SVN benchmarks on Phoronix while for now you can see our early benchmark results that are quite positive towards improved performance in LLVM/Clang 3.4. LLVM 3.4 is also really important for AMD R600 GPU users.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Nexus 7 is victorious, iPad small loses
Rest in tranquility, iPad little. Google killed you. Your question next: Is it murder or manslaughter ? or justified homicide, putting the Apple company tablet out of our agony?
Three days with all the new Nexus Several, I can?t imagine why Apple company let Search engines, and companion ASUS, seize back-to-school purchasing with the tablet. I don?t relate just to your instrument regarding destruction though the means. Your 2013 edition is widely available through main US retailers, including Amazon online and Best Buy. By just about all indications there?s inventory to meet demand, not really the typical offer shortages, although the 64gb WiFi product is not available this weekend coming from many stores ? but Yahoo and google Play can be stocked.
Now will be a really good period for The apple company to launch a whole new iPad tiny. Waiting to produce iOS 7 is really a mistake, but it is one My spouse and i expect the actual fruit-logo company to produce. I probably would not recommend iPad mini over Nexus 7 in order to anyone. Last week, my child asked for your Apple product to take back to college. She can have the Google android, and will appreciate me correctly later.
Google declared the tablet?on July 24, along with sales targeted for the Thirtieth, but they started early; about Friday.?Outstanding, emotive marketing and advertising video Fear Less, along with new textbook purchases as well as rentals, is sure sign Nexus 7?s release timing is very deliberate. Yahoo knows mothers and fathers and pupils will shop for tech methods over the next week. Nexus 7 isn?t only launched, it is widely available the following, as Google also electronic systems up distribution elsewhere.
Imagine individuals taking Nexus 6 to school who may have gone iPad mini. Advertising and syndication make the distinction. Apple?s tablet could be the elephant within the room, from a share of the market perspective, and also surely will not likely lose tons of weight as a consequence of Google?s gadget. But any sales losses are pointless, if only there were a more competitive ? and cost-effective ? iPad mini ready with regard to back to university.
Epic Competition
Let?s compare the 2 tablets.
iPad tiny specs:?7.9-inch back-lit IPS display (1024 x 768 solution, 163 pixels per ?); A5 dual-core processor; 1GB Ram memory; 16GB, 32GB or 64GB storage; 5-megapixel rear-facing and One particular.2MP front-facing cameras; Wireless; WiFi A/N; HSPA+/LTE (upon three versions); accelerometer; GPS; gyroscope; microphone stand; and iOS 6. Measures Two hundred x 134.6 x .28mm and also weighs 308 grams.
iPad small 16GB Wi-fi: $329
iPad mini 32GB WiFi: $429
iPad tiny 16GB WiFi/LTE: $459
iPad mini 64GB Wireless: $529
iPad small 32GB WiFi/LTE: $559
apple ipad mini 64GB WiFi/LTE: $659
Nexus Several specs: 7-inch back-lit Insolvency practitioners display (1920 by 1200 decision, 323 ppi);?1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Professional quad-core processor; Adreno 320 graphics; 2GB Random access memory; 16GB or perhaps 32GB safe-keeping; 5MP rear-facing and 1.2MP front-facing cameras; Bluetooth (support regarding Bluetooth Intelligent), WiFi A/N; HSPA+/LTE (about some types);?accelerometer; GPS; gyroscope; magnetometer; microphone; near field communications; wireless charging; and also Android 4.3. Measures?114 a 200 by 8.Sixty five mm and weighs Two hundred and ninety grams.
Nexus 7 16GB Wi-fi compatability: $229
Nexus 7 32GB WiFi: $269
Nexus Several 32GB WiFi/LTE: $349
The new N7 costs more than it?s forerunner ? $30 for the starter WiFi, for instance. Google?s Nexus Seven price increase surprises however timing is perfect. The high-end LTE style, while costing more than its HSPA+ predecessor, is very the value in comparison to the entry-level mini.
So regarding $349, you can buy any 7-inch HD capsule from Yahoo, with quick processor, 32GB storage and LTE, or for $20 a smaller amount a 6.9-inch iPad little with 1440 by 768 quality, 16GB and WiFi. The actual comparable design to Nexus Several is $559. For that budget-conscious, and who isn?t when back-to-school purchasing, Google?s entry tablet charges $100 less than Apple?s, but with superior cpu and display resolution.
Apple, as well as most Android manufacturers, can not compete with Yahoo on tablet pricing. That gives Nexus 7 massive opportunity to gain market share, given that the display screen is Hi-def, global LTE can be acquired, more merchants sell these devices and service Search engines Now rises as the fantastic app.
Google does not make money from products but via contextual content, companies and promoting wrapped around them. Hence the company can keep margins slim on the components, unlike The apple company which makes many profits from hardware sales. The fruit-logo business can never remain competitive on price and have a gadget ready for back-to-school buying. This is a sour plants for the time of year.
First Impressions
Colleague Alan Buckingham produces ? 1st formal overview of the new Nexus 6, but I will be remiss not necessarily expressing a thing about the encounter.
There?s little for you to dislike about Nexus 7, except if you?re attached with another system, such as iOS, as well as insist on one thing larger. From 323 pixels per in ., the High-definition display awes the eye area. Meanwhile, just like its precursor, the tablet suits comfortably a single hand, as well as two-thumb typing is simple.
I find the brand new Nexus 7 very comfortable to carry, and the tablet feels extremely light. It?s a perfect throw-in-a-purse-or-backpack dimensions. The more I prefer the tablet, the greater the size can feel right.
This is the place where much: We recently repurposed my daughter?s outdated 32GB iPad 2 for around-the-house make use of, such as looking up recipes. These days is heavy for the purpose, nevertheless paid for and also otherwise certainly not used. One or two hours after receiving Nexus 6, I carted about down to Best Buy to industry in the iPad 2. I took in the tablet a couple weeks back and got a $200 supply, which I turned down. Ha! New offer: $170! Simply no thanks to that! I Craigslisted with regard to $250 and offered the Apple mackintosh tablet Feb 5th night. I am going to use the income to buy another Nexus 7, laptop computer suited to the duty set towards the iPad 2.
Google Right now and speech search are major causes. I can?t overstate value of the services on the form aspect. The Fear Significantly less advert is actually exceptionally great marketing. The recording communicates many benefits, particularly through those two features, which, granted, are available in other Androids (as well as iOS, if you like, although not as available). But they sense just right upon Nexus 7. Believe Star Journey TNG.
The Star Trek vision regarding responsive processing rapidly goes from sci-fi to every day reality.?Google stands apart for driving forward Celebrity Trek-like human responsiveness. Currently and words search exceed others; an individual command activities and ask for responses, rather than touch with kids finger.?The two providers are a watershed development that basically changes exactly how people talk with tech products. Together, they make Nexus 7 particular and specially suited to students? wants ? or my very own (or your own house), in the kitchen and around the house.
Google?s marketing tagline for the unit is perfect for the rewards: For what concerns. The tablet?s performance is quick, the size just right for hands and fingers and assisting services remarkably useful. All of this while ipad tablet mini gives last year?s screen regarding next-decade pricing (think inflation).
Nexus Several could be late-summer?s surprise sleeper struck.
Tough luck, Apple mackintosh.
Source: http://www.lazyhacks.com/2013/07/nexus-7-is-victorious-ipad-small-loses.html
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Israel likely to release 104 Arab prisoners in a bid to revive Palestine peace talks
An Israeli holds a picture of a victim of a militant attack during a protest outside the office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, against the release of Arab prisoners as a step to renew stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, July 28, 2013. Netanyahu on Sunday urged divided rightists in his cabinet to approve the release of 104 Arab prisoners in order to restart peace talk with the Palestinians. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
?Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged divided rightists in his cabinet to approve the release of 104 Arab prisoners in order to restart peace talk with the Palestinians.
Netanyahu postponed the weekly meeting of ministers by an hour to make sure he had majority support for the measure which he described as painful but necessary to help end nearly three years of diplomatic standstill.
"This moment is not easy for me, is not easy for the cabinet ministers, and is not easy especially for the bereaved families, whose feelings I understand," Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks at the start of the meeting, referring to families who have lost members in militant attacks.
"But there are moments in which tough decisions must be made for the good of the nation and this is one of those moments," he said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded the release of prisoners held since before a 1993 interim peace accord took effect. Israel has jailed thousands more Palestinians since that time, many for carrying out deadly attacks.
The prisoner release would allow Netanyahu to sidestep other Palestinian demands, such as a halt to Jewish settlement expansion and a guarantee that negotiations over borders will be based on boundaries from before the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Israel wants to keep several settlement blocs and East Jerusalem, which it annexed as part of its capital in a move never recognised internationally, in any future deal.
In an appeal for public support posted on his Facebook page on Saturday night, Netanyahu said the prisoners would be released in groups only after the negotiations - set to last at least nine months - begin.
The 22-member cabinet was also scheduled to approve legislation that would require a referendum on any statehood deal reached with the Palestinians involving a withdrawal from land Israel captured in the 1967 war.
The U.S.-brokered talks, expected to reconvene in Washington as early as Tuesday, broke down in late 2010 in a dispute over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, which Palestinians say denies them a viable state.
Before the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu told ministers from his Likud party that Israel would pay a price if peace talks did not resume, according to one official who was there.
The latest diplomatic push follows months of intense shuttle diplomacy by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who said a week ago the groundwork had been laid for a breakthrough, while setting no specific date for talks to restart.
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Former Rep. Lindy Boggs of Louisiana dies at 97
FILE - In this September 30, 2000 file photo, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Lindy Boggs speaks during a news conference in Rome. Boggs, of Louisiana, who fought for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday, July 27, 2013. She was 97. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File)
FILE - In this September 30, 2000 file photo, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Lindy Boggs speaks during a news conference in Rome. Boggs, of Louisiana, who fought for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday, July 27, 2013. She was 97. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Rep. Lindy Boggs, a plantation-born Louisianan who used her soft-spoken grace to fight for civil rights during nearly 18 years in Congress after succeeding her late husband in the House, died Saturday. She was 97.
Boggs, who later served three years as ambassador to the Vatican during the Clinton administration, died of natural causes at her home in Chevy Chase, Md., according to her daughter, ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts.
Boggs' years in Congress started with a special election in 1973 to finish the term of her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs Sr., whose plane disappeared over Alaska six months earlier. Between them, they served a half-century in the House.
"It didn't occur to us that anybody else would do it," Roberts said in explaining why her mother was the natural pick for the congressional seat. Her parents, who had met in college, were "political partners for decades," she said, with Lindy Boggs running her husband's political campaigns and becoming a player on the Washington political scene.
Roberts called her mother "a trailblazer for women and the disadvantaged."
When Boggs announced her retirement in 1990, she was the only white representing a black-majority district in Congress. "I am proud to have played a small role in opening doors for blacks and women," she said at the time.
As family tragedy brought her in to Congress, so did it usher her out. At the time of her July 1990 announcement, her daughter Barbara Boggs Sigmund, mayor of Princeton, N.J., was dying of cancer. Sigmund died that October.
Her son, Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., is a leading Washington lawyer and lobbyist.
The elder Boggs was first elected to Congress in 1940, two years after the couple married. Both were also active in local reform groups.
Lindy Boggs was more than the typical congressional wife. She ran several of her husband's political campaigns and helped him in his Washington and New Orleans offices.
"Early on, Hale established with politicians at home that I was his direct representative and that they could say anything to me that they could say to him. Whatever decisions I made, they would be his final decisions," she said in 1976.
Breaking with most Southern whites, Lindy Boggs saw civil rights as an inseparable part of the political reform movement of the 1940s and '50s.
"You couldn't want to reverse the injustices of the political system and not include the blacks and the poor. It was just obvious," she said in 1990.
She worked for the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 and 1968, Head Start and other programs to help minorities, the poor and women.
After she entered Congress, Boggs used her seat on the House Appropriations Committee to steer money to New Orleans and the rest of the state. As a member of the House Banking and Currency Committee, she used typical steely grace to include women in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.
"I ran into a room where there was a copying machine, wrote in 'sex and marital status' on the bill, and made 47 copies," she said. "When I took it back into the subcommittee meeting, I told them I was sure it was just an oversight on their part."
Boggs changed the way politics operated, former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., once said.
"I've seen it time after time," Johnston said. "On difficult issues, powerful men and women are going toe to toe, sometimes civilly, sometimes acrimoniously. Lindy Boggs will come into the room. The debate will change. By the time she leaves the room, she usually has what she came to get."
As the first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention, in 1976, she decreed that she would be addressed as "Madam Chairwoman," rather than "Madam Chairman" or "Madam Chairperson."
"I'm a woman," she said. And, "Why should it be neuter?"
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, one of the hardest-hit facilities was Lindy Boggs Medical Center, a historic hospital named in her honor the previous year.
Her Bourbon Street home also was damaged and The Washington Post reported in February 2006 that she was living in a hotel nearby.
"There are worlds of friends I miss," she told the newspaper. "The culture is not there."
Corinne Claiborne was born March 13, 1916, on a plantation near New Orleans, a descendant of William C.C. Claiborne, the state's first elected governor. She came to be known as Lindy, according to Roberts, because a nurse thought she looked like her father, Roland Claiborne, and called her "Rolindy."
She attended Sophie Newcomb College, affiliated with Tulane University, and met her future husband when both were editors of the Tulane student paper. She taught school between graduation in 1935 and their marriage in 1938.
As part of a group of well-connected women called the Independent Women's Organization, she took to the street in a "Broom Brigade" in 1945, sweeping the streets to publicize the need to sweep out graft and corruption.
In her first election for Congress, in March 1973, she had to overcome prejudice against her gender and privileged background.
Said her Republican opponent, Robert E. Lee: "I've covered this district by foot, by car, by air. This is something that takes a strong, healthy man. ... A socialite is not going to do this district any good in Congress."
Her constituents disagreed, giving her at least 60 percent of the vote in every election from then on.
In 1991, a room in the Capitol for female members of Congress was renamed the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room to honor her long association with Congress. According to the House website, it was the first, and only time so far, that a room in the Capitol has been named for a woman.
Her Vatican posting was from 1997 to early 2001, and she said her goals were to work with the Vatican on promoting democracy, tolerance, religious freedom, peace and human rights.
In 2000, she announced that she would resign after President Bill Clinton left office, no matter which party won. "It's been an honor and a privilege and a wonderful opportunity to be in this position, but it's also extremely exhausting," she said at the time.
Shortly before Pope John Paul II died in 2005, she joined those praying for him. "I have a thousand wonderful memories of him," Boggs said. "I have been very, very fond of this pope for a very long time."
In addition to her children, Boggs is survived by eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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Online:
Congressional biography: http://tinyurl.com/lqgom8j
House website: http://tinyurl.com/lwe5ym9
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Technology And The Ruling Party
"Power tends to corrupt," said Lord Acton, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The sexism needs updating but the sentiment remains true. That's been all too obvious this week, during which the powers that be did their damnedest to protect their once-secret surveillance programs...while the NSA responded to Freedom Of Information Act requests with the claim "There's no central method to search [internal NSA emails] at this time."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7FescdlZ7Dk/
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Drone gender gap: More women worldwide opposed to strikes than men?
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July 26, 2013 at 3:25 PM ET
Pew Research Institute
There's a significant global gender gap when it comes to the United States' use of drones for military strikes, with more women around the world opposing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles than men.
While women in general are "far less likely than men to say that force is sometimes necessary in the pursuit of justice," the "gender difference over drone strikes is unusually large," says the Pew Research Institute in a new report.
In the U.S., of 61 percent of Americans who approve of drone strikes in military situations, 70 percent are men and 53 percent are women, Pew found.
But the gender gap is even greater in other countries "about this signature Obama administration anti-terrorist tool," wrote Bruce Stokes, Pew's director of global economic attitudes, in the report:
In Japan, for example, 41 percent of men approve of drone attacks, compared with just 10 percent of women. Double digit gender gaps are also found in six of the eight EU nations polled, as well as Australia, Canada, the U.S., South Korea and Uganda.
The Obama administration says it uses military drones to target al Qaeda leaders and senior Taliban officials who are plotting attacks against the U.S. and U.S. troops. But a recent NBC News investigation found that in Pakistan, the CIA didn't always know who it was targeting in using the drones.
Last spring, Pew surveyed people in 39 nations about the U.S. use of drone missile strikes in countries like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The only three countries where "majorities" support the drone use are Israel, Kenya and the U.S. itself, Pew found.
In France, Germany and Spain, "there are also sharp ideological divisions on this issue, with those on the political right far more supportive than those on the left."
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OS X Mavericks preview: Compressed Memory gives your Mac room to run
Another example of how Apple is trying to make Mavericks more efficient is "Compressed Memory." This technique helps free up memory from dormant apps that don't need it. The net result: your Mac runs and wakes from sleep faster.
If you open a lot of applications, or if some of your apps need a lot of memory, your Mac will slow down. Way down. That's because your Mac runs out of physical RAM to allocate. OS X isn't in the habit of saying no, though, so what it does is create a swap file that gets written to your Mac's hard disk. That swap file contains the contents of inactive memory. Reading from that swap file and writing to it takes time, and that slows the Mac down.
Apple has ameliorated some of the effects of swap memory in machines like the MacBook Air, which uses flash storage instead of a conventional hard drive. The MacBook Air has pretty limited amounts of RAM compared to other Macs but can still run a number of applications simultaneously quicker than Macs with conventional hard drives, thanks to the speed of flash storage. And newer MacBook Airs can go even faster, with speedy PCIe-based storage.
Not all Macs have flash storage, however. And even solid state drives have their limits. The speed of SATA and PCIe interfaces are less than the direct path between the CPU and the installed RAM, creating a bottleneck.
Improving memory efficiency
Apple set out to do things a bit differently in OS X Mavericks, and they've come up with a memory compression scheme that does the trick. Here's how it works:
At any given time, dozens of different processes - applications, background tasks and more - may be running on your Mac. A lot of them you may have absolutely no awareness of, unless you open the Activity Monitor app in your Utilities folder - they're not items that appear in your Dock, and there's no way to interact with them directly.
These processes and the apps you're running may be sitting in memory but not actively using memory. But they're there, and they're grabbing a little piece of your Mac's available RAM. Cumulatively, they take up space and create the potential for slowdowns.
Apple has engineered Mavericks to be aware when your Mac is reaching its physical RAM limit. And when it does, Mavericks leaps into action and figures out which processes are active and which are inactive. It then compresses the memory that the inactive applications have allocated, which frees up more RAM. That keeps your Mac from having to write content out to and read from swap files.
According to Apple, compressing and decompressing memory happens "almost instantly," so there's no slowdown and therefore no downside for the user. Apple says that with memory compression on Mavericks, they're seeing 1.4x speed increases in system reponsiveness under load, when opening documents or reactivating inactive applications, even on machines equipped with fast SSDs.
Your Mac has to write out swap files when it goes to sleep and it needs to read the when it wakes up. There's also a big improvement in the time it takes a Mac to wake from standby - 1.5x faster, compared to Mountain Lion.
It's yet another way that Mavericks promises to improve efficiency compared to Mountain Lion and what's come before, which means a faster and better user experience for you.
Have you seen your Mac slow way down as it manages big swap files? Do you think Mavericks will make a big difference for you? How much RAM does your Mac have? I want to hear from you, so please let me know in the comments.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Korea Returning Chinese Character
The world of hangul studies and childhood education have collided in an unusually sharp argument over the future of hanja in schools.
The spark for this latest conflagration was the decision by the Seoul Department of Education to expand hanja education in its elementary and middle schools starting in the 2013 fall semester
On July 3rd, civic groups devoted to hangul and parents of schoolchildren gathered in front of the Department of Education?s office building in Jongro and held a press conference detailing their opposition to teaching hanja in elementary schools.
The Coalition for Hangul Culture, the Association for Hangul Studies, and other hangul organizations, New Right parent associations which typically voice their concerns about the Department of Education?s policies, conservative education groups and progressive education groups all stood side by side in presenting their position during the meeting.
South Korean elementary schools had been using hangul-only textbooks for the past forty years, however the hanja expansion policy introduced by Moon Yong-rin, Chairman of the Seoul Department of Education, would have marked a change back toward hanja-based education. This fundamental change lead to the unusually unified opposition showing on July 3rd.
Starting in the fall, the Seoul Department of Education will implement a policy that encourages city elementary and middle schools to use textbooks that prioritize learning hanja terminology. The department is currently looking at the demands of teaching hanja and parents? concerns in regards to hanja education.
Hangul advocates and a number of education civic groups have branded the policy ?a return to the past.?
According to critics, ?Chairman Moon is advocating for the cause of teaching hanja in school because he believes that it is difficult to understand the words in the textbooks, but he is doing so based solely on his personal feelings rather than any objective evidence.?
The opposition claims that the students have a hard time understanding the hanja-based terms in their textbooks, but that it also takes too long to teach them the characters. They say that if such is the case, it would be better to replace the difficult words with more native Korean words rather than trying to teach the hanja.
Opposition groups also suggested that the hanja education policy will place an additional burden on students, thereby pushing them to rely more on private education and tutors.
The Seoul Department of Education has responded by saying that the opposition is overreacting, since the hanja classes will be optional and taught after school hours. The classes are also intended only to improve knowledge of Korean words.
During an internal meeting last month, Chairman Moon stated that ?the hanja expansion policy is intended to increase understanding of Korean, not to undermine the hangul-only education approach?make sure that there are no misunderstandings.?
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The above was machine translated from Yonhap news.
Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/china-far-east/266645-korea-returning-chinese-character.html
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Pink Heals tour brings cancer awareness to Oshkosh
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) - A group of pink police cars and fire trucks stopped in the City of Oshkosh to help in the fight against cancer.
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It was all part of a national cancer awareness program called Pink Heals.
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Today, the caravan traveled to stops throughout the city? where people could share their stories and sign the trucks.
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"I think a lot of times, the healthcare system is broke, and focus is too much in service to one's self, instead of everyone you're supposed to be inspiring to help," tour founder Dave Graybill says. "We're creating immediate care by raising money without raising taxes and 100% of it directed to the people in need."
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T-shirts commemorating the stop are on sale at all Oshkosh Hardees locations.
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Source: http://wearegreenbay.com/fulltext?nxd_id=211612
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Obama?s Speech Longer Than All but One of His State of the Union Addresses
AP
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President Obama?s speech on jobs and the economy Wednesday in Illinois took 1 hour, 6 minutes, making it longer than every State of the Union address of his presidency except the one in?January of 2010?when he spoke for 1 hour 9 minutes.
And yet many pundits were left wondering what the point was to Obama?s lengthy remarks at Knox College today.
The Weekly Standard?s Fred Barnes called it a ?predictable bust? with ?tired ideas? that proved Obama, whose approval ratings are at their lowest point since 2011,?may be older but is anything but wiser:
And remember the ?sequester??? It was his idea to force spending cuts of $100 billion or so for 10 years.? Now, though the sequester?s impact has been chiefly to reduce our military strength, he blames Republicans for ?leaving in place a meat cleaver? that?s done everything from costing jobs to gutting education and scientific research.
As usual for an Obama speech, there?s plenty of pie in the sky.? He?ll ?rebuild run-down neighborhoods.?? He?s for making preschool available for 4-year-olds?no mention of the cost?and providing ?a vital support system for working parents.?? Translated, that means taxpayer paid babysitting.
Forbes?contributor Doug Schoen, a Democrat, derided the ?much-hyped? address as little more than a campaign-style speech that doubled down on his 2012 approach: division, polarization and moving to the left.
Washington Post?s political blog ?The Fix? said Obama?s address would change very little despite being billed by aides as a major moment for his second term:
And yet, during that same OFA fundraiser, Obama acknowledged that no matter how lofty his goals or his rhetoric, the fundamental realities of the politics of the economy were almost certain to remain unchanged.??I?m excited about the speech, not because I think the speech is going to change any minds,? he said.
Truer words were never spoken.
?The Fix? editor Chris Cillizza added afterwards, ?You could be forgiven if you thought you had heard?President Obama?s speech on the economy today before. Because you have.?
Before the speech, liberal?Washington Post columnist and?frequent MSNBC contributor Dana Milbank pondered whether yet another attempt to ?pivot? to the economy showed the chief executive was ?fresh out of ideas?:
If he?s to break through the resistance, Obama will need some bold new proposals. That?s why his speech returning to the oldies would seem to confirm that the White House has given up on big achievements.
To build interest in the new series of speeches, the White House scheduled an invitation-only briefing (RSVP required) for Monday, then set cloak-and-dagger ground rules requiring that the briefers not be quoted, even anonymously. Reporters protested, but they needn?t have worried: The official who gave the briefing made clear that there would be no new policies announced, at least not major ones and not initially.
Even the royal baby stole Obama?s thunder. News that the young prince had been named George Alexander Louis of Cambridge came during his prepared remarks.
Source: http://freebeacon.com/obamas-speech-longer-than-all-but-one-of-his-state-of-the-union-addresses/
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At least one Mursi supporter killed in Cairo protest march
CAIRO (Reuters) - At least one supporter of Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Mursi was killed on Wednesday in Cairo during a protest march, a security source and the Muslim Brotherhood said.
The Muslim Brotherhood said on its website that police in civilian clothes had opened fire using live ammunition early on Wednesday on marching Mursi supporters, killing two and injuring others.
A security source confirmed one Mursi supporter was killed.
The Muslim Brotherhood has accused the Ministry of Interior of using thugs in plain clothes to attack protesters, but security officials have denied this accusation.
In a separate incident, a bomb exploded at a police station in a province north of Cairo early on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 17 others, Health Ministry and security sources told Reuters.
Unknown assailants threw the bomb from a passing car in Mansoura, the capital of Dakhalia province, two security sources said.
Nine people were killed in Cairo on Tuesday in clashes between opponents and Islamist supporters of Mursi who was toppled by the army earlier this month.
(Reporting By Shadia Nasralla; Editing by Philip Barbara)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-one-mursi-supporter-killed-cairo-protest-march-040625085.html
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Novel 'top-down' mechanism repatterns developing brain regions
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dennis O'Leary was the first scientist to show that the basic functional architecture of the cortex, the largest part of the human brain, was genetically determined during development. But as it so often does in science, answering one question opened up many others. O'Leary wondered what if the layout of the cortex wasn't fixed? What would happen if it were changed?
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/xyM_1rkqHw4/130722202649.htm
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Photo of Crashed Southwest Plane Shows Majorly Mangled Landing Gear
So remember how officials were pretty sure that the Southwest Airlines 737 crash landing
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ENERGY BOOM Tech Fuels Domestic Oil Production in Western US
North Dakota and Texas get all the press when it comes to America's domestic oil boom, but production is increasing dramatically in several other states in the American West.
According to the Energy Information Administration, since 2010 oil production has increased 64% in Colorado, 51% in Oklahoma, 46% in New Mexico, 45% in Utah and 23% in Wyoming.
Combined, those states rival the heralded Bakken field in North Dakota. The reason behind the boom is the same as it is in the more well-known oil producing regions: technology.
"In the olden days exploring for oil and natural gas was a much bigger challenge than it is now," explains Tim Wigley, President of the Western Energy Alliance, an industry association. "And what really has been a game changer has been directional drilling, so now as opposed to having 15 or 20 wells on your property, you have one that can branch out 10 to 15 different ways."
Wigley is quick to point out that the onshore oil boom is not due to the Obama administration.
"While energy production overall in the country has gone up significantly it is because of private land production, it is in spite of the federal government not because of it."
In a statement to Fox News, the Bureau of Land Management pointed out that, "Domestic production from over 99,000 federal onshore oil and gas wells accounts for almost 13 percent of the nation's natural gas production and 5 percent of its oil. In FY 2012, this amounted to about $2.5 billion in royalties from onshore federal oil and gas production."
While industry critics say those figures are insignificant compared to what they could be, some conservationists believe the administration has gone too far in opening up federal lands in the West to oil and gas production.
"The reality is that acres of land that have been leased for energy production far outstrip land that has been preserved or conserved during the Obama administration," said Pete Maysmith, Director of Conservation Colorado.?
"We need to put that on equal ground. That's not happening right now, we need to be doing more land protection here in Colorado and the West."
Maysmith acknowledges that oil and gas exploration must and will happen on public lands but says it must be done in ways that preserve the western tradition of multiple land use.?
"And the interesting thing is that Westerners actually get that. A bipartisan poll that came out in the region just a couple of months ago shows deep and strong support for preserving our landscapes. They are economic drivers for tourism, outdoor recreation, industry, agricultural uses, clean water, you name it."
The administration has worked to shorten the time it takes to obtain oil and gas leasing permits on federal lands, a process that used to take an average of 300 days. But critics like Wigley say it's still not enough when compared to state and private lands. "For instance a permit in Texas or Oklahoma or North Dakota, you can get in 15 or 45 days. A permit on federal lands is about 230 days."
He also points out that unlike most areas of the country, in most of the Intermountain West, the amount of land owned by the federal government ranges from around 30% to 70% in states like Utah and Nevada.
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