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Despite acute water woes property values in Amruthahalli go up ...
Jul 29, 2013, 06:28PM IST
Bangalore
Amruthahalli located in the outskirts of Bangalore is fast developing into an upmarket residential area. Located near Byatarayanapura, what was once known as a village, today has grown into one of the fastest developing suburbs of the city. The area has witnessed a string of residential projects, since mid-2012. This is despite acute water shortage that the area witnessed, during the same period.
In the Apr-June 2013 quarter, this micro-market has grown by 16 per cent. With a wide range of residential properties in various stages of development the average value of the property in this locality is around Rs 5,000 per sq ft.
Some of the leading developers with projects in this area include Purvankara, Century, Hoysala, Brigade, Godrej and Sobha.
?The one big advantage that this place has is its strategic location,?? states Satish Kumar of Kumars Real Estate. ?Just 2 years ago, land prices in Amrutahalli were hovering in between Rs 200 and Rs 350 per sq ft. Today the current land rates are around Rs 1,500 to 1,700 per sq ft, primarily because it is close to the Bangalore International Airport,?? he adds.
Amruthahalli is about 1.5 km from the airport connected via the 4-lane New Airport Road. This is proving to be convenient for professionals working in areas like Manyata Tech Park, Kirloskar Park, BIA- Airport and BEL. Also as it is close to the Hebbal flyover, the area is connected to well-developed localities like Sahakara Nagar, R T Nagar and MR Gardens.
The locality is close to facilities like hospitals, (Columbia Asia Hospital and Cauvery Medical Center), well known educational institutions of North Bangalore like Jawaharlal Institute and Mahatma Gandhi Institute, St Joseph?s college, DPS and Ryan?s School and Esteem Mall.
Though the entire area around Hebbal Flyover is extremely crowded, home owners in Amrutahalli feel the locality is relatively quieter.
?The added advantage that the place has is it is quieter and greener than the neighbouring localities,? observes Manjunatha Gowda, Properitor, Kushala Real Estates. ?This is primarily because the entrance to Amrutahalli Main is slightly behind a CMC area that has remained undisturbed. This has also resulted in the place continuing to have its tranquility and green cover.??
Kanchana Dwarakanath, MagicBricks.com Bureau
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Source: http://content.magicbricks.com/despite-acute-water-woes-property-values-in-amruthahalli-go-up/
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Chinese Billionaire's Wastewater Management Company Reports 25% Rise in 1st-Half Profit
Beijing Originwater Technology, one of China?s largest sewerage and wastewater management companies, said today first-half profit increased by 25% from a year earlier as it expanded into new markets.
Profit at Originwater, whose Shenzhen-traded shares have more than doubled in the past year, climbed to 102 million yuan, or $17 million, compared with 80.7 million yuan in the first six months of 2012.? Sales totaled 823 million yuan, an increase of 76% from last year.? The company has benefitted from government policies to encourage urbanization in the world?s most populous nation. ?
Chairman Wen Jianping, who owns about a quarter of Beijing Originwater, ranked No. 1,342 on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires List with wealth of $1 billion. ?He founded the company with classmates from the University of New South Wales.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Mali counts votes, cheered by high turnout in presidential race
By David Lewis and Tiemoko Diallo
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali tallied votes from its high-stakes election on Monday cheering a robust turnout and lack of violence as proof Malians were eager to turn the page on more than a year of turmoil, war and an army coup.
Official results were not due until Tuesday, but that did not stop ex-prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's camp from saying a first round victory was within reach.
Mahamadou Camara, a spokesman for Keita, universally known by his initials, IBK, said their tallies showed him scoring well above the 50 percent needed to avoid a run-off, which will take place August 11 if required.
Keita's rivals, who include ex-finance minister Soumaila Cisse, Modibo Sidibe, a former prime minister, and Dramane Dembele, the candidate of Mali's biggest party, said they were sure a second round would be needed.
The three, all members of the FDR coalition set up against the junta last year, met to issue a joint statement on Monday.
"There cannot be a victory in the first round," Amadou Koita, the coalition's spokesman, said in the statement.
Local newspapers lauded the vote on Monday morning, with state-run L'Essor saying the turnout was "exceptional".
"There were women, old people, blind people. Everyone wanted to vote," said Mariam Diallo-Drame, a youth leader who had encouraged people to take part in the election.
"This is the first time ever we had a truly democratic election. We have never seen that in Mali...We understood what happens if we don't fulfill our obligations. People are saying it is now up to the politicians to understand," she said.
Gamer Dicko, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry, which organized the vote, said it would take time to transport the results sheets across the country, which is twice the size of France, and collate them.
The vote was the first since a coup in March last year led to the occupation of Mali's north by separatist and Islamist rebels. French forces intervened in January to defeat the al Qaeda-linked fighters, whose threats to disrupt the election did not materialize.
However, the candidates - 26 men and one woman - are known quantities and few expect the kind of radical overhaul of Mali's political class that many say is necessary.
Groups of Keita's supporters had spilled onto the streets of the riverside capital overnight after local media announced results showing him scoring heavy victories in individual polling stations there.
They whistled and chanted "IBK, IBK" and "Takokele" - which means just one round in the local Bamabara language - reflecting confidence in Keita's camp of an outright win.
Rivals called their actions a provocation.
Cisse, seen as Keita's strongest challenger, said he would contest the results if there was no run-off.
"Across Bamako, there was organized fraud. Fraud is fraud, there is no such thing as small fraud," he told Reuters.
NOT WITHOUT PROBLEMS
Chief EU observer Louis Michel said on Monday the election took place in a calm atmosphere and participation exceeded 50 percent in some places.
Turnout at some polling stations visited by Reuters on Sunday was more than 50 percent, while participation in previous presidential elections has never exceeded 40 percent.
"No major incidents were reported even though there were some imperfections," Michel told journalists in Bamako.
"But none of these incidents, none of these imperfections could jeopardize the legitimacy of the results," he said.
In a few examples of reported problems, some Malians had difficulty finding the right polling station, and thousands who were displaced by the conflict are likely to have missed the vote as they would not have received the newly-printed ID cards.
Voting in Kidal, the heart of the Tuareg rebellion in Mali's desert north that sparked the crisis last year, was muted, observers and residents said. The future president must still secure a long-term peace with separatist rebels.
Observers said there were some protests against the vote in Kidal and a U.N. source said Tuareg MNLA rebels had sought to prevent some people from voting in Menaka, another northern town.
Results were meant to be posted outside all polling stations after local counting was completed, but they were missing from most locations visited in Bamako by Reuters on Monday morning.
The relatively high turnout and the lack of violence support those in Mali and world powers, especially France, who pushed for the vote to be held despite rushed preparations and fears of marginalizing thousands of voters.
A successful vote will also pave the way for donors to disburse some 3 billion euros in reconstruction aid promised in May.
(Additional reporting by Adama Diarra; Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mali-counts-votes-cheered-high-turnout-presidential-race-192651267.html
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Ribbon cutting celebrates Civil War Exhibit at New York State Military Museum
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Maj. Gen. Patrick Murphy, the adjutant general of New York, officially opened an exhibit on New York in the Civil War at the New York State Military Museum July 27.
Entitled "Empire for Union," the exhibit traces the history of New York and New Yorkers during the four years of war from 1861 to 1865 using some of the hundreds of items in the museum's permanent collection. While the exhibit will be permanent, items will be rotated through the display cases.
The New York State Military Museum traces its collection of items back to 1863 when the New York Legislature directed military officials to preserve battle flags, newspaper clippings, and other artifacts to tell the story of New York's soldiers and sailors in the war. The Bureau of Military Statistics published five reports summarizing the information collected and detailing the contributions made by New Yorkers during the Civil War.
Much of the information is available online at:http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/mil-hist.htm.
"New York sent more men into the Union Army and Navy ? more than 360,000-than did any other state. It's fitting that our museum commemorates this sacrifice and history," Murphy said.
The Division of Military and Naval Affairs, which is responsible for the New York Army and Air National Guard, maintains the collection of military artifacts and the museum.
Members of The Friends of the New York State Military Museum also took part in the event.
The Friends of the Museum raised the funds necessary to construct the exhibit through a series of fundraising events. The Friends conducted a series of special fund raising programs at the Museum over the last two years including USO shows and "Brewseum" in March.
"This has truly been a team effort with the community at large, groups like the Lions and area businesses and it's also a statement of patriotic pride by all involved in making this possible," said Lance Ingmire, president of the Friends of the Military Museum.
"The exhibit is organized chronologically and visitors follow a path that will allow them to survey what we feel are the most important points from that period," said Courtney Burns, acting Museum Director and curator. "The exhibit not only covers the battles but what was also happening in society and at the community level as well," he added.
"We hope visitors will come away with a deeper appreciation of not just our military past but our culture as well and how much that turbulent period has impacted our state and the nation," Burns said.
The New York State Military Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public New York's military heritage from the earliest days up to and including the present activities of the Military Forces of New York, primarily represented by the National Guard. "Empire for Union" has been added to the standing permanent exhibits including the American Revolution, Militia Period and World Wars I and II.
The Museum also offers temporary exhibits such as "Toys and Tanks," which was opened last winter and an exhibit on Benedict Arnold.
The Military Museum is located at 61 Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs. Its hours of operation are Tuesdays through Saturdays year round from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
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Google's Glass Explorers offer input on futuristic mobile computing eyewear
Some people look through their glasses and peer into a world others cannot see.
You might notice them fidgeting with the frames. Or seemingly talking to themselves.
In reality, these people are speaking to their glasses, and they call by name: "Glass."
About 10,000 people nationwide -- including many in Greater Cleveland -- are testing Google Glass, an optical headset that brings the Internet and computer capabilities to your eyes.
The frames are equipped with a hidden camera and tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye, so wearers simply say voice commands by first saying, "OK, Glass," followed by a command. Or they can scroll through options using a finger along the side of the device.
Say "take a picture" and the device does it. Say "take a video," and you can record what you see hands-free. Want to send email? Say "Send message to .?.?."
Google Glass engineers tout the technology as a way to keep people connected to their email, online social networks and other information without having to frequently look at a smartphone. Privacy watchdogs, though, are worried that this revolutionary product will make it even more difficult for people to know when they are on camera.
For a product that's not even available to the masses yet, it's getting tons of attention -- from a Saturday Night Live sketch, to privacy concerns from the former secretary of Homeland Security and even to Apple's CEO downplaying its potential to be a mass-market item.
Is "Google Glass" a fad or is it the future? (Didn't a lot of people ask the same question about the Internet in its infancy?) The legions of testers, known as "Explorers," will help determine whether eyeglass-connected Internet becomes the next incarnation of smartphones -- or just an expensive toy.
People who were interested had to apply through Twitter or Google's Plus Hangout, explaining in writing or video how they planned to use the technology. Three weeks ago, the winners -- 2,000 developers and 8,000 regular folks -- traveled to New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco and plunked down $1,500 for their devices.
Google Glass is expected to be commercially available possibly in 2014. Here are the impressions of four local Explorers:
Mel McGee, 42, Lakewood
?McGee is CEO and director of technology at Sales Whale, an online marketing firm in Lakewood, and president of imageNation, a 16-year-old web development company.
A developer for 17 years, McGee got into wearable computing 12 years ago when she designed her own mobile computing device, a headset that also required a clunky computer in a small bag.
"I got into it because I was a programmer web developer in the mid "90"s who didn't like being stuck behind my desk during the Internet boom," she said. "I started thinking about why are we stuck to machines. That's the whole concept behind wearable computing."
McGee said she's one of several hundred developers who have access to Google's Mirror API, code that allows developers to begin creating applications. Her impression after a few weeks: It's a time-saving device meant strictly for social use right now. She sees the $1,500 as a business expense.
"It's a computer that's wearable and allows you to access additional information without excluding your current field of vision," McGee said. "It's pretty cool."
"It's like an amped-up cell phone, really, with a heads-up display," she said. "When you're looking through Glass, you have to look up a little bit and it does not impede your vision, which is a good thing. Even when you look up, you look through it."
With a background in computer science, psychology and anthropology, McGee said she is curious about the way people respond to her when she's wearing Google Glass.
"As a social scientist, I am intrigued," she said. "When I first picked them up in New York, a lot of people recognized them. A lot of smiling. Some people shied away from me though, thinking I was recording a video, so there are some privacy concerns."
Since she's been wearing them daily in Northeast Ohio, she has found a lot more people do not recognize Google Glass and tend to be uncomfortable.
"I've adapted. When people are clearly uneasy around me, I put them on my head like sunglasses so they know I'm not taping them," she said.
"Less people in Ohio recognize them," she said. "Kids seem to be much more positive. Most want to try them on and see what they are all about."
Similar to other local Google Glass Explorers, McGee believes that privacy concerns seem to be overblown.
"I think that people who have privacy concerns it's more about fear of the unknown and their voices seem to be louder."
Jeff Rohrs, 43, Lakewood
?Rohrs, vice president of Marketing Insights at ExactTarget of Indianapolis, works from his home office.
Rohrs impression after three weeks of using "Google Glass": He sees it as a pre-release product that's still rough around the edges. He knew he wanted the tangerine color, he said, because he didn't want people to think that he was crazy talking to himself while issuing commands.
"I don't want people thinking I'm a creeper, being stealth," Rohr said. "You've got a video camera on your face, for heaven's sake."
Still, he said, the first time he wore the glasses at a Fourth of July parade, he got so much attention that he felt more like a cyborg. More kids seem to be familiar with them than adults, he said, and many wanted to check them out.
"I'm kind of an unpaid product demonstrator for Google," he said."It's like a bluetooth headset on steroids. It's not a standalone device. The power of the device is that it's wearable and meant to be movable."
Even though Rohr said he gladly paid $1,500, he doesn't wear the glasses nearly as much as he thought he would. His take on what the product should cost when it's available to consumers: "I wouldn't pay anymore than $200 to $300, the price of a smartphone," he said.
He prefers to use his smartphone instead of Google Glass. Frustrations include having all of the people he follows on Twitter dumped into his eyeview, then trying to find a photo in the midst of all of the information. He doesn't like sending email messages, either. If you mess up a message, the only way to fix it is to delete it and start over, he said.
Right now, Glass is more about getting news stories and other information, rather than sending out information, he said. But even when he's getting information, he feels a little subconscious.
"Operating the device makes me feel like I'm constantly swiping my fingers on the side of my head or swatting some imaginary bees," he said.
"If this weren't for the purpose of my job and experimentation, I would return them," he said. "They have a lot of promise -- always connected to Internet -- but in terms of efficiency and functionality, about 99 percent of what you can do on Glass I would prefer to do it on a smartphone.
"My smartphone is like an appendage or part of my brain. Glass is like a hat, a nice-to-have, not a must-have," Rohrs said. "I'm excited about not what it is right now but what it could be in the future."
Sarita Graham, 35, University Heights
?Graham owns Atiras LLC, a 2-year-old search engine services firm.
Graham appears to be a "Google Glass" convert considering she wears the headgear several hours a day and so far has only one complaint. Phone calls are not generally clear.
"A lot of us have reported that to Google and they're working on a fix for that," she said. "It's a great feature, though, because you can see who's calling and answer calls without stopping what you're doing."
"A lot of people think I look weird," Graham said. "It may not look nice, but it makes my day go by easier."
She finds herself using the glasses primarily for email, text messages, online searches and the GPS feature.
"I love technology, and I wanted to part of an opportunity to make a new piece better," she said. "I can see a lot of industries making good use of this product, including law enforcement and the medical field."
Graham also thinks the glasses could be an asset in her field. "I can wear the glass and demonstrate to someone how to fix a computer problem live," she said. "Sometimes it's hard to explain things over the phone."
Matt Stevens, 29, Cleveland?
Stevens is manager of multimedia services at Thundertech, a digital marketing company in Midtown Cleveland that started looking into mobile marketing six years ago. He's also a triathlete interested in a variety of mobile technology.
Stevens' impression after using Google Glass in his work and personal life: He sees potential for the product, but since he primarily finds himself using it for the camera and video, he's not impressed with the battery life.
If you shoot videos continuously the battery is drained in less than an hour. And depending on your normal usage of seeking information, he estimates the battery probably lasts only about five hours before it has to be recharged.
"I actually applied personally, not associated with ThunderTech," Stevens said. "We brainstormed internally, and three of us entered the contest. Google picked two of us to be Explorers." As a triathlete for five years, Stevens said his video application to Google included his current use of fitness apps on his smartphone.
"I thought it would be cool to have real-time fitness data in front of my eyes -- current distance, heartbeat on a bike, your cadence -- how many times per minute you're peddling," he said.
Still, aside from early adopters like himself, Stevens questions whether people would actually use the glasses.
"It does look a little weird," he said. "I think the look of it might be a deterrent for some people. Hopefully they will eventually look a little more stylish."
"I still think it has potential, but I'm a little disappointed," he said. "Some of the times when I've needed it it let me down, like trying to get directions when I was in New York."
Stevens said he's glad his company made the investment in Google Glass so they can figure out how people, including clients, might use them.
"For me, being so connected it's a love-hate thing," Stevens said. "I can access information anytime I want, but at the same time it's good to disconnect and relax a little bit." ?
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/googles_glass_explorers_offer.html
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New Mexico leaders don't see job competition as part of regional push
By Vic Kolenc
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Work continues on the new Union Pacific rail hub in Santa Teresa, N.M., last week. Union Pacific is in the middle of building its 400 million rail facility in Santa Teresa. (Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)
The newly formed, El Paso-based Borderplex Alliance wants to lead a regional economic development effort that includes El Paso, southern New Mexico, and Juarez.
But its game plan may need tweaking because when it comes to jobs, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez said it's New Mexico against Texas, including El Paso, and the rest of the world.
"Everyone will compete for their own jobs," Martinez told the El Paso Times last week when she and New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela were in Santa Teresa to announce and welcome two El Paso companies to a Santa Teresa industrial park.
Martinez said every job counts. She even
Jerry Pacheco, Santa Teresa economic developer shows expansion work at the Southwest Steel Coil Inc. company in Santa Teresa last week. Pacheco said he s not against regional economic development efforts. (Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)
told her audience of New Mexico politicians and business people that she planned to chide Texas Gov. Rick Perry about the two El Paso companies' plans to locate facilities in Santa Teresa.One El Paso company is relocating to Santa Teresa, and one is adding another location there. The companies' owners said they will create about 50 jobs in El Paso's bedroom community that happens to be in another state.
Santa Teresa's industrial parks now have about 50 companies, and Union Pacific is in the midst of building a $400 million rail facility there.
Martinez and Barela said after the Santa Teresa event last week that they have no problem working with the Borderplex Alliance on big, regional issues, such as border infrastructure needs, maintaining the area's military bases -- Holloman, White Sands, and Fort Bliss -- workforce development and quality of life items.
But they'll continue to fight for jobs, they said.
"The Boderplex Alliance understands the (big) issues are where they have to play," Barela told the El Paso Times. "But (job) recruiting -- we are going to do that. New Mexicans
Work continues on the new Union Pacific rail hub in Santa Teresa, N.M., last week. Union Pacific is in the middle of building its $400 million rail facility in Santa Teresa. (Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)
will create jobs for New Mexicans."Economic development organizations established in New Mexico to recruit companies will continue to recruit, Barela said.
Rolando Pablos, 45, a Ju?rez-El Paso expatriate who moved from Austin to be Borderplex's first chief executive officer in March, said in an emailed statement that he met with Martinez and Barela last week. He has no doubts, he said, "they understand the value of working together as a region," especially on the big-issue items they listed.
Pablos said he agrees with the New Mexico leaders that Borderplex's main objective is to work on the broader, regional issues.
"It is her (Gov. Martinez) job to create jobs and promote her state -- and she is excelling at it," Pablos said. "We are very supportive of her efforts. For us, it does not matter whether the jobs come to El Paso or Santa Teresa; just as long as they come to our region. What matters most is that our region is creating jobs that will ultimately benefit our economy and help raise our standard of living."
Jerry Pacheco, 47, who's been recruiting companies to Santa Teresa and other areas of southern New Mexico for almost 20 years, said he's not against regional economic development efforts. The problem with the Borderplex Alliance, he said, is it created confusion by announcing to the world that it would lead a regional economic development effort without consulting all the players.
Pacheco said he continues to get calls from people asking if the organizations he represents remain as the industrial recruiters for Santa Teresa and other areas of southern New Mexico.
Pacheco is founder and vice president of the Border Industrial Association, with about 70 company members, and a recruiter for the New Mexico Partnership, a state-funded industrial recruiter. He also is executive director of the International Business Accelerator in Santa Teresa -- a statewide trade counseling program.
"When I met Rolando, I asked him who gave you the mandate to represent the region, and I never got an answer. He showed a little misunderstanding about our internal (economic development) protocols."
The privately operated Borderplex was formed late last year by a merger of the El Paso Regional Economic Development Corp., or REDCo, El Paso's industrial recruiter, and the Paso del Norte Group, a group of El Paso area business leaders involved in economic development projects.
Pacheco said he agrees regional efforts make sense for large projects. Years ago, he noted, this area made a regional pitch for the Toyota Tundra truck plant, which went to San Antonio.
"If you get together to work a regional effort, you have to set objectives and protocols," he said. "That should have been done first, so we don't get egg on our face, or (get in) unnecessary fights."
Pablos, in a interview with the El Paso Times late last month, said Borderplex will bring in the muscle needed to promote the region, but, he said, it will not meddle in the business of local economic development organizations.
Pacheco said he has problems with some of Borderplex's plans as outlined by Pablos in an El Paso Times article early this month, including that Borderplex plans to lobby for this area in Santa Fe.
New Mexico native Pacheco said he's been a lobbyist in Santa Fe for years and knows the political landscape there well.
"Why would I let these guys pitch New Mexico? I know the governor personally; I can call her," Pacheco said. "The movers and shakers in Santa Fe already don't see us (southern New Mexico) as part of the state. If a Texas group goes there, they will get scalped. It's like me saying I'm going to Austin and represent you (El Paso). I don't know a thing about politics in Austin."
Pancho Uranga, a Borderplex Alliance board member and executive for electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which operates a huge factory complex in Mexico, just across the border from Santa Teresa, said a lot of work still needs to be done on the regional economic development pitch. But it eventually will happen, he predicted last week after talking to Gov. Martinez at the Santa Teresa event.
As younger people move into leadership positions, things will change because they understand the need for a regional approach better than some of the entrenched leaders, he said.
Gov. Martinez noted that Borderplex has just begun to outline its mission.
"We will be equal partners in development of that mission," Martinez said.
The Borderplex's Pablos said he's met with hundreds of people from across the region to seek input and let people know Borderplex's aim is to create a "platform for regional cooperation."
"To the vast majority, regional unity makes complete sense," Pablos said in his written statement. "They believe that a well-coordinated effort to create a favorable environment in order to attract high-grade investment is long overdue.
"Prosperity is within reach, but we must first divest ourselves of legacy rivalries in order to come together once and for all," Pablos said.
Vic Kolenc may be reached at 546-6421.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Cocaine (NSFW)
The one in which Nick Offerman gets fired, gets drunk, and pisses all over Nic Cage's star on the Walk of Fame.
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Treasure trove of vintage 80s Apple ads surface on YouTube
Well before we became acquainted with dancing silhouettes and laughed along with the iconic "Get a Mac" ads, Apple's commercials were quintessentially 80s.
Thankfully, the YouTube channel EveryAppleAds lives up to its name and over the past week has released a slew of previously forgotten Apple commercials from the 1980s that you've either forgotten about or, most likely, never even knew existed.
It's funny looking back at these commercials not just because they're extremely funny and cheezy, but because they also take us back to a time when people actually had to be convinced that they needed a computer in the first place.Here's a sampling:
This 1987 commercial called "Power Lunch" is laughably bad to the extent that the commercial itself has a lot of background noise. So it goes in the world of power lunching. I'm no Don Draper, which is to say I'm not an ad man, but muffling the name of the product at the end of the commercial doesn't seem like the wisest of choices.
Here's an old Apple IIc ad dubbed "Frog." Yes, it's exactly what it purports to be.
And lookee here, some classic misdirection and an old jab at IBM.
Here's an Apple II ad starring Kimmy Gibbler from Full House. It's an 80's bonanza.
And keeping the celebrity motif going, here's an Apple IIc ad featuring Alan Greenspan.
There are a lot more 80s commercials on the EveryAppleAds YouTube channel, so if you're inclined to indulge in some nostalgia this weekend, it's worth hopping over and checking a few of them out.
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Japan?s All Nippon finds damaged 787 beacons
Travel ? Further woes for Dreamliners, as Boeing, FAA probe the suspect component.
TOKYO ? Japan?s All Nippon Airways has found damage to wiring on two Boeing 787 locator beacons, a device suspected as the cause of a fire on an Ethiopian Airlines 787.
ANA spokesman Ryosei Nomura said Friday that Boeing Co., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Japanese regulators had ordered checks of the beacons.
ANA has 20 of the jets dubbed the Dreamliner.
The transmitters, made by Honeywell International Inc., guide rescuers to aircraft in emergencies. They may be behind the Ethiopian Airlines fire that occurred July 12 at London?s Heathrow Airport.
Dreamliner jets were grounded worldwide in January because of a separate set of problems with lithium ion batteries that caused overheating and fires.
Flights resumed four months later after the battery system was revamped.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
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Tornado Warning Times May Get Longer By Pinpointing Lightning Strikes
Scientists are becoming increasingly convinced that a rapid increase in inter-cloud lightning?lightning that occurs between clouds without hitting the ground?is a strong indicator of severe weather. Image: Flickr/Lauri V?in
An unassuming-looking rod on a rooftop in Beltsville, Md., connected with wires to specialized computer equipment in the building below, is helping scientists pinpoint the location of lightning as it flashes during a thunderstorm. Working in tandem with nine other identical devices installed throughout the Washington, D.C., area, these sensors promise to help usher in a new era of severe weather prediction.
Called the Washington D.C. Lightning Mapping Array (DC LMA), the devices detect, in real time, high-frequency radio waves emitted by lightning in the surrounding region.
Scientists are becoming increasingly convinced that a rapid increase in inter-cloud lightning -- lightning that occurs between clouds without hitting the ground -- is a strong indicator of severe weather. These increases have been shown to occur about 20 minutes before the event, while the current average lead warning time for tornadoes is 13 minutes (ClimateWire, May 31).
By 2015, new satellites circling the Earth's equator will be responsible for detecting these lightning jumps, giving meteorologists across the nation greater confidence when predicting tornadoes and other severe weather events. The DC LMA is now being used to train meteorologists to interpret this new data.
"We're using these ground-based observations to prepare forecasters so they can use the satellites as soon as they're in orbit," said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher Scott Rudlosky, who helps run the array.
"Because we're trying to mitigate that gap, we want to have all the different operational users ready to go as soon as that satellite's turned on," he said.
Mapping dangerous strikes
U.S. government agencies NASA, NOAA and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology sponsor the lightning array, and colleges and universities throughout the D.C. metropolitan area host the stations. The array started running in 2007 and can detect a lightning storm as far as 120 miles away from its center.
As lightning emits radio waves, these waves hit the DC LMA's rods at different times. Computers are then able to triangulate exactly where and when the lightning occurred and transmit these data instantaneously.
When multiple storms are happening at once, seeing upticks in lightning frequency can help forecasters increase their confidence of severe weather warnings.
"When you have multiple storms going on at the same time, the forecaster really has limited time to get out the warnings," Rudlosky said. "What this data really provides the ability to do is identify which storms should we be focusing on at this instant."
The DC LMA is incredibly precise. Last week, a lightning strike in Annapolis, Md., left two men badly injured. After the fact, Rudlosky was able to use DC LMA data create a 3-D image of the lightning strike that was likely responsible.
"Within a fraction of a second, we can tell when that lightning flash occurred," Rudlosky said.
Another goal driving the research is to "better inform the public and keep them as safe from lightning as much as we can," he added. "These lightning mapping arrays have actually changed the criteria for how long before or how far away the lightning needs to be before you should be worried."
New satellites aim to provide instant lightning data nationwide
There are now seven LMA networks in the United States, including arrays in tornado-heavy areas like north Alabama, Oklahoma City, Colorado and west Texas. But it would be too expensive to deploy technology like the DC LMA across the country -- Rudlosky estimates that a similar array would cost about $300,000 today.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Bank of America's earnings soar 70 percent
NEW YORK (AP) ? Bank of America says its second-quarter profits soared, helped by higher earnings from investment banking and cost-cutting.
The results, reported early Wednesday, beat analysts' expectations. The bank earned $3.6 billion in the quarter after payments to preferred shareholders. That was up 70 percent from $2.1 billion a year ago.
Per share, that worked out to 32 cents. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected 25 cents per share. The bank's stock rose 1.7 percent in late morning trading.
Bank of America, the country's second-biggest bank by assets, has been slimming down and cutting jobs since CEO Brian Moynihan took over at the beginning of 2010, a departure from the empire-building of his predecessors. The strategy meant to make the bank easier to manage and to escape potential extra scrutiny from regulators.
In the second quarter, the bank slashed expenses about 6 percent, to $16 billion from $17 billion a year ago. It also cut about 18,300 jobs over the year, or nearly 7 percent of its work force. The bank now has about 257,000 employees, down about 11 percent from its peak of nearly 289,000 in early 2011.
In a call with reporters, Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson noted that some of the job cuts were in the unit that services troubled mortgages, which is shrinking as the bank works through those loans. He also said the bank had added jobs in the unit that makes new mortgages.
The bank has also been closing branches. The number of branches fell to about 5,300, down by about 260 over the year. Thompson said the bank would continue to trim branches, and indicated that the bank would sell branches in more rural areas ? in locations "outside of our principal operating areas" and where the bank didn't have "a critical mass of consumers."
Bank of America benefited from lower litigation expenses, having already settled several high-profile lawsuits related to its mortgage unit earlier this year. It also was able to shrink the unit that services troubled mortgages.
The bank funded nearly $27 billion in home mortgages and home equity loans, a jump from 41 percent a year ago, though the loss in its overall mortgage business widened as the bank wound down its troubled mortgages.
Thompson said it was difficult to predict the effect that higher interest rates might have on its mortgage business. Though they're still near historic lows, mortgage rates have been inching higher since the Federal Reserve indicated that it might pull out of some of its programs meant to support the economy.
Thompson noted that higher rates often indicated an improving economy, which could lead to more people buying homes for the first time. But higher rates will also reduce demand for refinances, which have been driving the mortgage business at Bank of America and other banks in recent quarters. About 83 percent of the mortgages that Bank of America funded over the quarter were refinances.
The net result, Thompson said, "is very difficult to predict until you see the environment you're in."
Investment banking and wealth management powered Bank of America's earnings more than its consumer business did.
Total revenue was $22.9 billion after stripping out one-time charges, up 3 percent from a year ago. That was better than the $22.8 billion expected by analysts polled by FactSet.
Bank of America's stock rose 24 cents to $14.16. It's up 22 percent this year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bank-americas-earnings-soar-70-percent-111728878.html
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Why did J.K. Rowling write under a pseudonym? 'Just for the joy of it'
Fellow bestselling author Stephen King and others in the literary community weigh in on J.K. Rowling's choice to release her latest book, 'The Cuckoo's Calling,' using a pen name.
J.K. Rowling called writing under the pen name of Robert Galbraith 'such a liberating experience.'
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So when it broke that not only had Rowling written another book but that readers could already find it in stores as well as in e-book format, the novel shot to the top of bestseller lists as rapidly as it disappeared from bookshop shelves. How'd the public miss it? Rowling had released her novel, "The Cuckoo's Calling," under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith (described as a former member of the Royal Military Police).
"I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer," Rowling said in a statement. ?Being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience. It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name."
She also thanked "the writers and reviewers, both in the newspapers and online, who have been so generous to the novel."
It all made sense to horror writer Stephen King. King, who has also written under a pseudonym (he published short stories under the name Richard Bachman until Bachman's real identity was discovered), told USA Today he understood why the "Harry Potter" author would want to publish something under a new name.
"Jo is right about one big thing ? what a pleasure, what a blessed relief, to write in anonymity, just for the joy of it," he said. "Now that I know, I can't wait to read the book."
Although sales of Rowling's book lagged, reviews were effusive even before the actual author was discovered, with Publishers Weekly calling it a "stellar" debut and Library Journal writing that "Galbraith's take on contemporary celebrity obsession makes for a grand beach read. It's like a mash-up of Charles Dickens and Penny Vincenzi."
Crime writer Mark Billingham wrote it was "hard to believe this is a debut novel."
Amazon editorial director Sara Nelson said she admired what Rowling had done, seeming to want to receive honest criticism separate from the attention her name now inevitably brings.
"She wants to write," Nelson said of the author. "She just wants to work."
In addition, Nelson said she found the story unusual.
"Historically, writers have used a different name when they're going to write a different kind of book," she noted. Rowling's novel is a different genre from her normal fare, but that doesn't seem to be the reason she chose a pseudonym.
As for what publisher Little, Brown thought when it released a novel by a superstar under a false name, Nelson said she thinks both the publisher and Rowling knew the truth wouldn't stay buried.
"In this world, everyone knows nothing stays a secret forever," she said.
Will we now see a rash of novels released under pen names? Nelson doesn't think so.
"I don't think it's a trend," she said, noting that she thinks authors will continue to do it if they want to try a different genre, like "if John Grisham wanted to write a romance novel."
But Nelson thinks the success of "The Cuckoo's Calling" may prove enduring.
"If the word-of-mouth on this is good, and there'll be [more] reviews now.... I think this might have legs," she said.
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Air Force Academy spending off $177M in fiscal '12
DENVER (AP) -- Air Force Academy spending plunged by 21.1 percent in 2012 as the military scaled back across all branches.
Academy expenditures on payroll and other categories, such as construction and services, totaled $662 million in fiscal year 2012, according to the academy's annual report on its economic impact. That's down $177 million from the previous year.
The 2012 report, released July 3, did not address the reasons, but the military has been cutting spending as it refocuses and slims down for the post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan world.
Academy officials had no immediate response Tuesday.
Andy Merritt, a military specialist with the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance, said the cuts were expected under an agreement between President Barack Obama and Congress in 2011 to reduce $487 billion in projected Defense Department spending over 10 years.
"It's not entirely surprising to see," Merritt said.
Merritt said the academy reductions were a result of the 2011 budget agreement, not the federal automatic spending cuts known as sequestration. Sequestration took effect on Jan. 1, three months after the end of the 2012 fiscal year, when the academy cuts were completed.
Total academy payroll ? including military personnel, civilian employees and contractors ? was $346 million in 2012, down $71 million, or 16.9 percent.
About 9,800 military members and civilians worked at the academy in 2012, a decrease of 590, or 6 percent. It wasn't immediately clear whether any of the personnel cuts hit the faculty.
Military personnel at the academy totaled about 5,700 in 2012, down 700, or 10.9 percent, from 2011. The total included 4,108 cadets in 2012, 315 fewer than in 2011.
Construction spending accounted for $39 million of the decline. Construction can vary widely from year to year as older projects are completed and new ones get underway.
The academy, located just north of Colorado Springs, said its total economic impact on the area ? including non-academy jobs created ? was $899 million in 2012, down 10 percent, or $100 million, from the year before.
However, the 2012 total includes $48 million in categories that don't appear to be in the 2011 report ? estimated spending during Parents Weekend, graduation week and the days when new cadets arrive, along with spending generated by sporting events and sports camps and contributions to the Combined Federal Campaign, a charity drive.
If those categories are removed, the 2012 economic impact was $851 million, down $148 million, or 14.8 percent.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
High Blood Pressure Increasing in Children
More children have elevated blood pressure than before, and both increasing obesity rates and higher salt intake are to blame, according to a new study.
The researchers found that 19.2 percent of U.S. boys between ages 8 and 17 had high blood pressure, according to a national survey conducted between 1999 and 2008. That's up from 15.8 percent who had high blood pressure according to a 1988-1994 survey.
The percentage of girls with high blood pressure rose to 12.6 percent in the recent survey, from 8.2 percent in the older one.
The survey also showed that children with the greatest sodium intake (more than 3,450 milligram daily) were 36 percent more likely than those with the lowest intake (less than 2300 milligram daily) to have elevated blood pressure.
Increased risk of high blood pressure in the children was linked to higher weight, larger waistlines and eating more sodium than recommended, the researchers said.
Until now, "there's been very little evidence to support an effect of salt on blood pressure in children, while in adults, the relationship between salt and blood pressure is well substantiated," said study researcher Dr. Bonita Falkner, professor of medicine and pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University.
Because of changes in the food supply and increased consumption of processed foods, dietary sodium intake has increased in U.S. children, as well as adults, the researchers said.
Up to 80 percent of people's excess salt intake comes from processed food, Falkner said. "It's hidden. You can't really taste it or feel it," she said.
In adults, blood pressure should normally be less than 120/80 mm Hg. However, in children and teens, blood pressure norms vary according to age, sex and height. [10 Ways to Promote Kids' Healthy Eating Habits]
Current dietary guidelines for Americans recommend that adults in general should consume less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day. However, adults still consume an average of 3,400 milligrams per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the study, more than 80 percent of children in the studies had a daily sodium intake of more than 2,300 milligrams.
"Everyone expects sodium intake will continue to go up," said Bernard Rosner, who also worked on the study and is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. "It seems there's been a little bit of listening to dietary recommendations, but not a lot."
The results also showed more a greater percentage of children were overweight in the second period, and children of both sexes, especially girls, had bigger waistlines on average.
The children in the study were a sample from the general population, not children who are in medical centers getting treated, meaning that the elevated blood pressure may be a hidden problem in many of them, the researchers said.
In severe cases of hypertension in children, a doctor may perform tests to check possible kidney disease, heart defects or hormone disorders.
The general treatment for children with elevated blood pressure is lifestyle changes, such as eating a healthier diet and engaging in more physical activity, the researchers said.
"Parents need to do everything they can to prevent obesity in their child, [an effort] which can be extraordinarily challenging," Falkner said.
She suggested trying to have regular meals and limiting processed food, as well as high fat, high salt and high sugar food. This may enable a child to maintain a natural appetite and metabolism that avoids obesity, Falkner said.
"It's a big issue," she said. "Hidden salt in processed food is a health issue for the population, and the food industry would not like to hear this."?
The study was published today (July 15) in the journal Hypertension.
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Coalition supports union call for pay rise for childcare workers
Early childhood educators with a Certificate III are paid $19.07 while workers with similar qualifications in other areas of work are paid almost $30 per hour. Photograph: Photofusion Picture Library/Al/Alamy
A bid by the United Voice union to increase early childcare workers' pay by about a third has won support from the Coalition, while the Labor party is still considering it.
United Voice lodged a complaint with Fair Work Australia on Monday for the average childcare worker's wage to be increased by $10 per hour from $19.07, arguing workers are being underpaid because it is an area traditionally seen as "women's work".
Early childhood educators with a Certificate III are paid $19.07 while workers with similar qualifications in other areas of work are paid almost $30 per hour.
United Voice has applied for an Equal Remuneration Order with FWA which would cover about 68,000 childcare employees.
National president of United Voice, Michael Crosby, said the rate of pay being applied for took into account educational levels and professional skills and was about closing the gender pay gap.
"Educators' work has historically been underpaid because it has been viewed as 'women's work', drawing on skills that were traditionally unpaid as they were performed in the home.
"Today, childcare is professionalised and its quality is assessed in accordance with high standards," he said.
"Educators deserve a professional wage for the professional work they do.
"It is not in children's interests for this gross underpayment of educators to continue."
The Coalition's spokesperson for childcare and early childhood learning, Sussan Ley, said Labor's changes to childcare policy ? including a pay rise for some workers and requirement of certain skills ? meant the workers deserved to be paid more.
"The Coalition has said from day one, the pay issue for childcare workers should be put to the Fair Work Commission," she said.
"When you ask carers and early learning educators to take on extra responsibility, quality and skills improvement which Labor has done, it's not unreasonable the industry might then ask to be paid appropriately in recognition."
The union said the $300m Early Years Quality Fund was a step in the right direction and called for bipartisan support on it but Ley said it had divided the workforce.
"Now that United Voice has finally decided to approach this issue through the front door and not by some dodgy backdoor deal, we'll watch the outcome with great interest," she said.
A spokeswoman for the education minister, Bill Shorten, said the government would consider the FWA application.
"Labor is committed to closing the gender pay gap and improving the economic security of Australian women," she said.
"That is why this Labor government removed barriers to equal pay claims under federal workplace relations law, which made possible the first ever successful equal pay claim in the federal workplace relations system."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/15/coalition-union-childcare-workers-pay
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Monday, July 15, 2013
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Washington's Seferian-Jenkins pleads guilty to DUI
SEATTLE ? Washington tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of driving under the influence stemming from his arrest after crashing his car in March.
Seferian-Jenkins made the guilty plea in Seattle Municipal Court during what was supposed to be a pre-trial hearing on his case. Seferian-Jenkins was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 363 suspended. Court records indicate Serferian-Jenkins is scheduled to serve his one day in jail on July 31. Washington begins fall camp on Aug. 5.
Whether Seferian-Jenkins will be on the practice field for the start of camp remains a question. He was suspended from team activities following his March arrest and coach Steve Sarkisian has not given indications of when Seferian-Jenkins will rejoin team activities or any punishment he might face.
A Washington athletic department spokesman said Monday no statement was expected from the school or Sarkisian about Seferian-Jenkins' guilty plea. Washington opens the season on Aug. 31, hosting Boise State.
"I want everyone to know how sorry I am for the disappointment and embarrassment I have caused. I especially want to apologize to my teammates, my coaches and particularly my family," Seferian-Jenkins said in a statement released by his attorney. "I also want to apologize to the entire University of Washington family for not living up to my expectations. I hope that everyone can learn from my mistake so that they do not commit the same lapse in judgment that I committed this part March."
Last season, Seferian-Jenkins caught 69 passes for 850 yards ? both single-season records for Washington tight ends ? and seven touchdowns. He was one of three finalists for the Mackey Award given to the top tight end in the country and was named a third-team all-American by the AP.
He was arrested on March 9 following a late-night car accident. His blood-alcohol level was 0.18 percent, more than twice the state limit. A police report stated Seferian-Jenkins' vehicle was found at the bottom of a catch basin at a park near the University of Washington. The driver objected to medical care, but was eventually placed on a backboard and transported to Harborview Medical Center. He objected to a blood test at the hospital before police obtained a search warrant to draw his blood.
Wearing a tan blazer and black tie, Seferian-Jenkins apologized during his statement to the court. Seferian-Jenkins' attorney, William Kirk, noted his client chose to stop driving after his arrest and started walking most places, to which Judge Fred Bonner said, "That might be good for you."
Before issuing his sentence, Bonner told Seferian-Jenkins that one thing he could do for the court is, "Talk to your teammates about what you have gone through."
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Microsoft?s Xbox One chief product officer admits big mistakes in messaging
Xbox One chief product officer Marc Whitten admitted that Microsoft made mistakes in communicating its policies on digital rights to its consumers, according an interview published by?IGN.
The mistakes started on May 21, when the company announced its next-generation game console, and then multiplied as Microsoft executives gave different answers to the same questions on used game sales, once-a-day connection requirements, and privacy issues. The company issued a clarification on the policies just before the E3 trade show in June, and then it backtracked after a gamer revolt after the show on June 19. Then games chief Don Mattrick left the company and Microsoft installed Windows chief Julie Larson-Green as the new Xbox hardware boss.
?I think it?s pretty simple. We?ve got to just talk more, get people understanding what our system is,? Whitten told IGN. ?The thing that?s really gratifying is that people are excited about the types of features that are possible, and it?s sort of shame on us that we haven?t done as good of a job as we can to make people feel like that?s where we?re headed.?
?The number one thing I want to do is I want to get the product out, because people are going to use it and obviously a lot of this is more evident, but certainly what I want to do right is now is talk more about how we thought about these features,? he continued. ?How we thought about how Xbox Live works, how digital works. I see people feeling like we?ve moved away from digital, when certainly I don?t believe that?s the case. I believe we?ve added on choice for people. It was an addition of a feature onto Xbox One, not a removal of a feature. And I understand people see things like Family Sharing and they?re like, ?Wow, I was really looking forward to that,? which is more of an engineering reality time frame type-thing.?
Whitten said that an online petition asking Microsoft to overturn its backtracking was another indication of the company?s need to talk more openly.
?What it tells me is we need to do more work to talk about what we?re doing because I think that we did something different than maybe how people are perceiving it,? he said. ?When I read some of the things like that petition, from my perspective we took a lot of the feedback and, while Xbox One is built to be digital native, to have this amazing online experience, we realized people wanted some choice. They wanted what I like to call a bridge, sort of how they think about the world today using more digital stuff. What we did, we added to what the console can do by providing physical and offline modes in the console. It isn?t about moving away from what that digital vision is for the platform. It?s about adding that choice. Frankly, I think we need to just do more to let people see how the console works, what they?re going to be able to do for it. I think a lot of the things they?re wishing for are frankly there.?
Microsoft has taken a beating from Sony, which has argued that it is thinking more about hardcore gamers.
?We love core gamers,? Whitten said. ?They?re the people that have built Xbox and Xbox Live. That?s the place where we need to do a better job showing up, and we need to engage more.?
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Obama asserts Mandela's values are Africa's future
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ? Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, vowing to bring "light where there is darkness."
The president's address at the University of Cape Town capped an emotionally charged day in this picturesque coastal city, including a solemn visit to the Robben Island prison where Mandela was confined for 18 of his 27 years in captivity. Obama stood stoically with his family in Mandela's cramped cell and peered across the lime quarry where Mandela toiled each day, causing the damage to his lungs that led to his latest hospital stint.
"Nelson Mandela showed us that one man's courage can move the world," Obama said during his evening speech at the university. He was flanked by a diverse array of students, underscoring Mandela's vision for a unified "rainbow nation" for the country once led by a white racist government.
In the flagship address of his weeklong trip to Africa, Obama outlined a U.S. policy toward the continent that focuses on increasing the region's ability to support itself economically, politically and militarily. Harkening back to a prominent theme from his 2009 speech in Ghana ? Obama's only other trip to Africa as president ? he said Africans must take much of the responsibility for achieving that goal, although he pledged American assistance.
"Ultimately I believe Africans should make up their own minds about what serves African interests," he said. "We trust your judgment, the judgment of ordinary people. We believe that when you control your destiny, if you got a handle on your governments, then governments will promote freedom and opportunity, because that will serve you."
Obama's address came nearly 50 years after Robert F. Kennedy delivered his famous speech at the same university. Kennedy's speech, delivered soon after Mandela was sentenced to life in prison, called on young people to launch a fight against injustice, creating ripples of hope that would "build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Much has changed in South Africa since Kennedy addressed the nation. The apartheid regime crumbled under intense internal and external pressure. Mandela was elected as his country's first black president following his release from prison. And South Africa has rapidly become continent's economic and political powerhouse.
But Obama said that progress, in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent, rests on a "fragile foundation." In order to solidify the gains, Obama called on Africans to focus on three priorities: expanding opportunity, promoting democracy and supporting peace.
A cornerstone of Obama's efforts to expand opportunity is the new "Power Africa" initiative unveiled ahead of his speech. The venture is supported by $7 billion in U.S. investment and $9 billion from the private sector, and will seek to bring electricity to at least 20 million new households and commercial entities in an initial set of six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.
The White House did not set a specific deadline for achieving that goal, but Obama advisers said it could happen within a decade. However, the first round of contributions still fall well short of the $300 billion the International Energy Agency says would be required to achieve universal electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.
Obama opened his speech with deeply personal remarks about Mandela, tracing the anti-apartheid icon's influence on his own political activism to his young daughters. He said that standing in Mandela's cell alongside Malia and Sasha made the experience all the more poignant, reflecting on the distinction he shares with Mandela in being his country's first black president.
"Seeing them stand within the walls that once surrounded Nelson Mandela, I knew this was an experience they would never forget," he said. "I knew they now appreciated a little bit more that Madiba and other had made for freedom," Obama added, referring to Mandela by his clan name.
Obama arrived in Cape Town Sunday from Johannesburg, where he met privately with members of Mandela's family and spoke with the former president's wife. In keeping with the family's wishes, Obama did not visit Mandela in the hospital.
On a sunny winter day in the Southern Hemisphere, Obama and his family flew by helicopter to Robben Island, the prison that epitomized the struggle of Mandela and his contemporaries against apartheid rule. The Obamas were led through the island by Ahmed Kathrada, an 83-year-old former prisoner who was held alongside Mandela and had also given Obama a tour of the jail when he visited as a U.S. senator in 2006.
The Obamas solemnly peered across the bright white lime quarry where Mandela worked each day. They spent 20 minutes inside the tiny cell where Mandela spent nearly two decades of his life, all the while inspiring the anti-apartheid movement on mainland South Africa.
Before closing their visit, Obama and wife Michelle stoically entered a prison courtyard, the president's hand on the small of the first lady's back, to sign a guestbook.
"On behalf of our family we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield," Obama wrote. "The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit."
The president also stopped Sunday at a health center overseen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a visit aimed at highlighting the impact of a U.S.-funded program to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS. The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was started by George W. Bush and continued by Obama.
Obama praised Tutu's work in an emotional meeting in which Tutu said Africans are praying that Obama will be a success and a leader for peace, particularly in the Middle East. Many of their aides were brought to tears as the two men embraced in a hug.
The White House said the U.S. will spend about $4.2 billion on PEPFAR funding this year, money that has been used to increase the number of people receiving life-saving anti-retroviral drugs and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus.
Bush, who has stayed active on Africa issues since leaving office, was scheduled to be in Tanzania Monday, the same day Obama arrives in the East African nation. The White House did not rule out the possibility of a meeting between the two presidents.
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Associated Press writer Nedra Pickler contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-asserts-mandelas-values-africas-future-193946648.html
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