IBM Hiring B.E/B.Tech Graduates As "Software Engineer - ISTL ...

Company Name : IBM

Company Website : www.ibm.com

Job Designation or Job Role : Software Engineer - ISTL

Candidate Educational Qualification : Bachelor's Degree

Candidate Experience Required : 0 to 2 Years

CTC or Package Offered : Best in Market

Working Location : Bangalore, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune

Functional Area : Application Programming,?Maintenance

Area of Working : IT-Software/ Software Services

Desired Candidate Profile :

1. 0 to 2yrs yrs experience in the IT Industry with software development and 16 years of formal education with graduation / post graduation degree in Computer Science or related fields.
2. Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly organised, self-motivated, take initiative and an above-average manager of time and resources.
3. Multi-tasking, and exceptional attention to detail required.
4. Professional dress/smart casual attire is required when at events/meetings.
5. Must have knowledge of programming in Java, UNIX, Knowledge of RDBMs and Application Servers would be added advantage

Job Description :
This role will require you to be accountable for individual or team results as a team member. This position will be responsible for but not limited to the following duties

Business Impact :

1. Accountable for individual or team results.
2. May contribute by supporting activities that are subject to business measurements, impact customer satisfaction, or impact immediate costs or expenses

Contribution and Leadership :

1. Works on professional level projects; work is often reviewed for developmental purposes.
2. Understand the standard mission of the professional group and vision in own area of competence.
3. May directly influence people in own project.
4. Position may require coordination of activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable team members.

Activities and Assignments :

1. Participates in departmental teams
2. Develops knowledge of product-related activities, tools and systems
3. Develops basic communication skills through education and experience
4. Defines personal skills strategy, identifying available and required skills

Skills :

1. Works on professional projects, work often reviewed
2. Identifies problems
3. Prepares and recommends solution alternatives; keeps abreast of ""state of the art"" technology
4. Collaborates with others to carry out assigned duties
5. Directly influences people in own project
6. Some negotiation required

Company Profile :

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. As of December 2011, IBM was the third-largest publicly traded technology company in the world by market capitalization.

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The holidays were fine once the flu left our house | The Plaincity ...

A whole brand new year lies ahead. What does it have in store for us all? Only God knows so let us put our trust in him. I hope everyone had a great, safe holiday. We had a very nice holiday after the flu bug finally left our house.

Christmas Day was spent here at home. Elizabeth?s friend Timothy and Susan? s friend Mose joined us for the day. It was a memorable day playing games and just being together as a family. Our thoughts and prayers went out to the ones missing family members this holiday season. They are missed even more during the special holiday time.

I put a breakfast casserole in the oven to heat while everyone opened their gifts. Days like that go way too fast.

Sunday we had the annual Christmas potluck dinner after church services. As always there was more than enough food. Daughter Loretta made cupcakes and frosted and decorated them to take along.

Monday evening Jacob, Emma and family came in honor of Joe?s birthday which was Dec. 22. Joe grilled chicken and hot wings while I made scalloped potatoes. We also froze homemade ice cream for our dessert and Emma brought donuts.

Jacob, Emma, and family, Timothy and Mose also spent New Year?s Day here. We had a brunch which was a? breakfast haystack.?

Our breakfast haystack menu was biscuits cut into bite sized pieces, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, chopped bacon, and diced ham, shredded cheese, green peppers, diced tomatoes, diced onion, cheese sauce, salsa, hot peppers, and sausage gravy. After dishes were washed we exchanged gifts with Emma and Jacob?s family. We had a name exchange which was interesting to see who all had who. Then everyone went sledding in our hay field except for Jacob, Joe, Emma, and I. We stayed in the warm house and played board games.

Timothy had a sled tied behind his pony and gave some pretty fast rides around the hay field. It looked liked it was a challenge to stay on the sled when he took some fast curves.

They also had fun sliding down the hill in the sled. The snow made some nice gliding downhill. When they were all tired from sledding they came back in to warm up. We set snacks out for everyone. Emma brought a lot of snacks too.

I heated up the leftover chicken and wings from the evening before. The rest of the afternoon was spent playing games.

Daughter Elizabeth went back to work at the factory on Wednesday. The children go back to school on Monday. Husband Joe will head back to work at the factory, also on Monday.

Daughter Susan has two more ponies here to train. One is a little miniature pony and the other is a bigger sized pony like our pony Stormy. Her friend Mose?s dad gave Susan the pony to keep for her own. She is excited and eager to train her. Benjamin and Susan have the pony, which is named Roxy, hitched to the pony cart now for the first time. It always makes me a little nervous until she has the ponies going good. Benjamin, 13, enjoys helping her train the ponies. Jacob, Emma, and family went to Berne, Indiana to have Christmas with Jacobs? family. While there they stopped in to say hi to brother Amos, Nancy and family. Amos sent along a roll of his homemade summer sausage he made. It was very good and disappeared quite fast around here. We appreciated it very much.

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In a large mixing bowl add ingredients in the order listed. Do not mix until the last ingredient has been added. Beat until smooth. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Add frosting when cool. Makes 19 cupcakes.

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Chinese official booted after account of lurid affair emerges

By Ed Flanagan, Producer, NBC News

BEIJING ? The rise of new Chinese leader Xi Jinping last November has not been good for mainland officials caught with their pants down.

In recent months, a slew of low-level Communist officials as well as a few high ranking ones ?most notably the vice party chief of the southwestern province of Sichuan, Li Chuncheng ? have been exposed by local media and dismissed from their positions after their sexual peccadilloes came to light.

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The latest senior official to be toppled due to a sex scandal, Yi Junqing, was a vice minister in charge of China Central Committee?s Central Compilation and Translation Bureau.

His dismissal was announced Thursday in a one-sentence statement by Chinese state media, which simply noted he had been "removed from post for 'improper lifestyle.'"?

The terse release by the state-run Xinhua news service belied the expansive and often lurid claims that have flooded the Web about Yi?s sexual trysts. Yi was seemingly exposed by his alleged mistress, Chang Yan, who posted a 120,000 Chinese character essay online detailing the sex, money and gifts exchanged over many months.

Though many of the affair?s particulars read like the clich?-ridden narratives familiar to many Chinese who have followed the adventures of officials over the years, this case is unique in that it shows the lengths to which many in China go to secure coveted ministry jobs, and the economic and social security that comes with those jobs.

Chang, 35, a married native of China?s Shanxi province, was a visiting post-doctorate student at the Translation Bureau and had aspirations of landing a job there once her studies were completed.

Earning employment at the bureau?s Beijing office ? and thus the proper permits needed to bring her husband from Shanxi to live and work in Beijing ?would require the authorization of Yi, who ran the bureau.

According to Chang?s account, the price for that approval turned out to be steep, both morally and financially.

"I was trying to figure out what he wants, money or me," Chang wrote in one excerpt translated by the U.K.?s Telegraph newspaper. "There is no free lunch if I wanted to work for the bureau. I knew there was a price to pay to work for the bureau. I had already paid 10,000 yuan [USD$1,600]. He said he would take two months to get me the job and then he would invite me."

Besides giving in and becoming Yi?s mistress, Chang writes that she paid $10,000 in total to Yi to secure this government position. Yi?s failure to deliver on that job led Chang to post details of the sordid affair on her private blog, she said.

That someone would sleep with a potential boss or even pay for a position is of no surprise in China, but to have it written about so openly sparked an uproar online.

Despite censors erasing the story on Chinese websites, news of the essay soon spread on the Web.

On China?s Twitter-like service, Weibo, the affair became a hot topic Friday.

A post by Chang on her blog ? where the original entry was quickly erased ? seemed to suggest that the story had been written as a piece of fiction.

"In my spare time I put together a work of fiction," Chang wrote on her blog entry. "I suffered serious depression... and regularly sank into a state of delusion and even fantasy."

Weibo users overwhelmingly dismissed the confession as forced and condemned Yi for his corruption.

"Rumor has again proven to be truth," wrote one user.

"If we got rid of officials like Yi who had these types of affairs, we?d have to eliminate 99.9 percent of them!" declared another.

Regardless of whether her story is true or not, Yi?s dismissal Thursday shows the lengths to which China?s ruling Communist Party appears willing to go in order to maintain its legitimacy and supremacy.

More news from China from NBC News' Behind the Wall

NBC News' Le Li contributed to this report.

Source: http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/18/16584237-chinese-official-booted-after-account-of-lurid-affair-emerges?lite

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Earth may be crashing through dark matter walls

Earth is constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter, and we already have the tools to detect them. That's the conclusion of physicists who say the universe may be filled with a patchwork quilt of force fields created shortly after the big bang.

Observations of how mass clumps in space suggest that about 86 per cent of all matter is invisible dark matter, which interacts with ordinary matter mainly through gravity. The most popular theory is that dark matter is made of weakly interacting massive particles.

WIMPs should also interact with ordinary matter via the weak nuclear force, and their presence should have slight but measurable effects. However, years of searches for WIMPs have been coming up empty.

"So far nothing is found, and I feel like it's time to broaden the scope of our search," says Maxim Pospelov of the University of Victoria in Canada. "What we propose is to look for some other signatures."

Bubbly cosmos

Pospelov and colleagues have been examining a theory that at least some of the universe's dark matter is tied up in structures called domain walls, akin to the boundaries between tightly packed bubbles. The idea is that the hot early universe was full of an exotic force field that varied randomly. As the universe expanded and cooled, the field froze, leaving a patchwork of domains, each with its own distinct value for the field.

Having different fields sit next to each other requires energy to be stored within the domain walls. Mass and energy are interchangeable, so on a large scale a network of domain walls can look like concentrations of mass ? that is, like dark matter, says Pospelov.

If the grid of domain walls is packed tightly enough ? say, if the width of the domains is several hundred times the distance between Earth and the sun ? Earth should pass through a domain wall once every few years. "As a human, you wouldn't feel a thing," says Pospelov. "You will go through the wall without noticing." But magnetometers ? devices that, as the name suggests, measure magnetic fields ? could detect the walls, say Pospelov and colleagues in a new study. Although the field inside a domain would not affect a magnetometer, the device would sense the change when Earth passes through a domain wall.

Dark matter walls have not been detected yet because anyone using a single magnetometer would find the readings swamped by noise, Pospelov says. "You'd never be able to say if it's because the Earth went through a bizarre magnetic field or if a grad student dropped their iPhone or something," he says.

Network needed

Finding the walls will require a network of at least five detectors spread around the world, Pospelov suggests. Colleagues in Poland and California have already built one magnetometer each and have shown that they are sensitive enough for the scheme to work.

Domain walls wouldn't account for all the dark matter in the universe, but they could explain why finding particles of the stuff has been such a challenge, says Pospelov.

If domain walls are found, the news might come as a relief to physicists still waiting for WIMPs to show up. Earlier this month, for instance, a team working with a detector in Russia that has been running for more than 24 years announced that they have yet to see any sign of these dark matter candidates.

Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who was not involved in Pospelov's study, isn't yet convinced that dark matter walls exist. But he is glad that physicists are keeping an open mind about alternatives to WIMPs.

"We've looked for WIMP dark matter in so many ways," he says. "At some point you have to ask, are we totally on the wrong track?"

Journal reference: Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.021803

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Five Ways ObamaCare and Workers Comp Are Similar - Workers ...

The Wall street Journal very recently published an article on how the?Affordable?Care Act will affect health insurance premiums.? ?There seemed to be a few items in the Act that sounded very similar to Workers Comp.

The first similar component ?is health insurance costs and Workers Comp medical treatment fees both being indexed or based on the Medicare/Medicaid?fee schedules. ? A large majority of states now use fee schedules to reimburse providers for medical treatment.

The second similarity is in states with no fee schedules, the Usual and Customary charges are indexed on a Zip Code or address. ? ?The Usual and Customary charges seemed to be very similar to the community-based pricing requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

The final three comparisons are best compared by an excerpt from the article. ?The following three components reminded me of the same Workers Compensation insurance requirements.

Central to ObamaCare are requirements that health insurers?

1. ?Accept everyone who applies (guaranteed issue)
2. Cannot charge more based on serious medical conditions (modified community rating)
3. Include numerous coverage mandates that force insurance to pay for many often uncovered medical conditions.\

Workers Comp insurers have almost the same requirements:

1. Accept everyone that applies indirectly as all employees are covered. ?Workers Compensation insurance is a guaranteed issue policy of sorts?
2. Cannot charge more for employees with serious pre-existing conditions. ?Workers Comp insurers cover the employees regardless of prior medical condition?
3. Are sometimes forced to cover injuries that may have not been work-related

Source: http://blogs.cutcompcosts.com/2013/01/five-ways-obamacare-and-workers-comp.html

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What Happened To The Music Industry 01/20 by iCandiRadio | Blog ...

On his show, Comedian Rodney Perry covers arts and entertainment, everything from comedy and politics to music and acting, with his signature comedic slant.

MashUp Radio is a 30-minute podcast that discusses the fusion of technology, life, culture and science. Host Peter Biddle, engineer and executive for Intel?s Atom Software, dishes up a thought-provoking discussion.

Joy Keys provides her listeners with insight to improve their lives mentally, physically, monetarily and emotionally. Past guests on the show have included Meshell Nedegeocello, Blair Underwood, in addition to an impressive list of CEOs, humanitarians and authors.

Host Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck. He has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. This is a business radio show where he shares all the craziness of small business. It?s that craziness that actually makes it exciting, interesting and totally unpredictable.

The Bottom Line Sports Show is hosted by former NBA stars Penny Hardaway, Charles Oakley, Mateen Cleaves. Tune in to get the inside scoop on what's happening in sports today.

Deepak Chopra Radio provides an online forum for compelling and thought provoking conversations on success, love, sexuality and relationships, well-being and spirituality.

Hits Radio covers basketball, sports culture and entertainment with past guests including Jason Kidd, Robin Lundberg and Chris Herren.

Listeners get an earful on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Whether it?s the current political cocktail or the latest must-read award-winning book, Halli tackles all topics and likes to stir ? and sometimes shakes ? things up.

Official Internet radio show of forthcoming epic paranormal investigation book by Eric Olsen and "Haunted Housewife" Theresa Argie.

Award-winning World Footprints is a leading voice in socially responsible travel and lifestyle. Hosts Ian & Tonya celebrate culture and heritage and bring a unique voice to the world of travel.

Football Reporters Online is a group of veteran football experts in the fields of coaching, scouting, talent evaluation, and writing/broadcasting/media placement. Combined, the group brings well over 100 years of expertise in sports.

Host John Martin interviews the nation's leading entrepreneurs and small biz experts to educate small business owners on how to be successful. Past guests have included Emeril Lagasse and Guy Kawasaki.

The Movie Geeks share their passion for the art through interviews with the stars of and creative minds behind your favorite flicks and pay tribute to big-screen legends. From James Cameron and Francis Ford Coppola to Ellen Burstyn and Robert Duvall, The Geeks have got'em all.

Sylvia Global presents global conversations pertaining to women, wealth, business, faith and philanthropy. Sylvia has interviewed an eclectic mix from CEOs and musicians to fashion designers and philanthropists including Randolph Duke and Ne-Yo.

Mr. Media host Bob Andelman goes one-on-one with the hottest, most influential minds from the worlds of film, TV, music, comedy, journalism and literature. That means A-listers like Kirk Douglas, Christian Slater, Kathy Ireland, Rick Fox, Chris Hansen and Jackie Collins.

Paula Begoun, best-selling author of Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, separates fact from fiction on achieving a radiant, youthful complexion at any age. She?s regularly joined by health and beauty experts who offer the latest on keeping your skin in tip-top shape.

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How the protein transport machinery in the chloroplasts of higher plants developed

How the protein transport machinery in the chloroplasts of higher plants developed

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Halfway between bacteria and tree

How the protein transport machinery in the chloroplasts of higher plants developed Moss Physcomitrella patens is an evolutionary intermediate stage

Together with colleagues from Sweden, RUB researchers have studied how the protein transport system of bacteria developed over time to form the system in the chloroplasts of higher plants. They explored the so-called signal recognition particles (SRP) and their receptors. Bioinformatic and biochemical analyses revealed that the moss Physcomitrella patens has evolutionarily old and new components of the SRP system, and thus represents an intermediate stage in the development from the bacterial transport system to the chloroplast system in higher plants. The international team led by Prof. Dr. Danja Sch?nemann and Dr. Chantal Tr?ger from the Working Group Molecular Biology of Plant Organelles at the Ruhr-Universit?t reported in the journal The Plant Cell.

The SRP system guides new proteins to their place of work

In the cell fluid, a special transport machinery conveys proteins from their origin to their place of work, for example in the cell membrane. The decisive factor is the so-called SRP system. It binds itself to the protein to be transported, travels with it to the cell membrane and interacts there with the SRP receptor (FtsY). If the SRP system binds to the receptor, cleavage of the energy storage molecule GTP triggers further processes which ultimately anchor the protein in the membrane.

From cyanobacterium to chloroplast

In the cell fluid of bacteria, animals and plants, the SRP system consists of two components: the protein SRP54 and the ribonucleic acid SRP RNA. Several years ago, researchers found that the chloroplasts of higher plants, i.e. the photosynthetically active cell components, possess their own SRP system. It is very different from the system of the cell fluid because it has no SRP RNA. However, alongside SRP54 it also contains the protein SRP43, which occurs exclusively in chloroplasts. Scientists assume that chloroplasts originated from cyanobacteria, which initially lived in symbiosis with plant progenitor cells and were ultimately integrated into the plant cells. The scientists have now explored how the RNA-free SRP system of the chloroplasts originated from the RNA-containing SRP system of the bacteria.

Plant kingdom bioinformatically examined

With the aid of bioinformatics, the Bochum biologists and Dr. Magnus Rosenblad of Gothenburg University first examined which representatives in the plant kingdom have which components of the SRP system in their chloroplasts. "We were surprised that many organisms from unicellular green algae to mosses and ferns possess the gene for the SRP RNA in their chloroplasts", says Danja Sch?nemann. "The only exceptions are the higher plants, which have lost this gene". For them, the SRP system consists solely of the proteins SRP54 and SRP43. Interestingly though, SRP43 also occurs in the chloroplasts of lower plants, which are still equipped with SRP RNA.

SRP RNA in moss has partially lost its function

In collaboration with several groups of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 642 at the RUB, Dr. Chantal Tr?ger investigated the biochemistry of the moss Physcomitrella patens, which is among the lower plants. Physcomitrella has all the conceivable components of the SRP system in its chloroplasts: both the evolutionarily old components SRP54 and SRP RNA, as well as the more recent evolutionary protein SRP43. However, the SRP RNA of the moss chloroplasts forms a longer loop than the bacterial SRP RNA. This altered structure apparently prevents it from regulating the cleavage of GTP. Physcomitrella patens thus contains the evolutionarily old SRP RNA, which has largely lost certain functions. The SRP system of the chloroplasts of Physcomitrella patens therefore represents the transition between bacteria and higher plants. An X-ray structure analysis also revealed that the SRP receptor (FtsY) of the moss already has properties of the protein of higher plants.

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C. Tr?ger, M.A. Rosenblad, D. Ziehe, C. Garcia-Petit, L. Schrader, K. Kock, C.V. Richter, B. Klinkert , F. Narberhaus, C. Herrmann, E. Hofmann, H. Aronsson, D. Sch?nemann (2012): Evolution from the prokaryotic to the higher plant chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle: the Signal Recognition Particle RNA is conserved in plastids of a wide range of photosynthetic organisms, The Plant Cell, DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.102996

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Singer silences his stutter with song on 'Idol'

By Craig Berman, TODAY contributor

?American Idol? returned to its roots on Thursday with a kinder, gentler episode filled with inspiring stories designed to tug at the heartstrings and make it even sadder when some of those getting good news in Chicago are summarily booted off in Hollywood.

The biggest story by far was Lazaro Arbos. Arbos has a stutter bad enough that even a simple sentence is difficult for him, and the judges had to help him get the words out when he told them the name of his song. But as soon as he broke out ?Bridge Over Troubled Waters,? all of that went away, and he got four yes votes from the overwhelmed panel.

Is Arbos likely to win? Probably not. But he?s a great story and he inspired anyone who watched. That, traditionally, is what the audition episodes are all about.

Unconventional for a different reason was Kez Ban. Ban doesn?t have the look of a pop singer ? she has the look of someone who plays with fire for a living, which, as a fire performer, is what she does ? and she acted like she didn?t much care how she did and was just there on a lark. Maybe she had a gig down the street and showed up to kill time.

But whether she was slumming it or simply sandbagging, Ban got four yes votes and moved on to Hollywood. Then she complained about the paperwork she?d have to fill out. Her voice was good enough to go far, but she?ll probably have to act like she cares a little bit about how she does if she wants to succeed in the competition.

That was just the tip of the iceberg in the TV-movie-of-the-week category:

• Mariah Pulice was recovering from an eating disorder, and clutched her golden ticket as if it were an affirmation of all the work she?d done to get there, which it pretty much was.
• Clifton Duffin?s parents had never heard him sing, and then got called in to hear his good news.
• Brandy Neelly was adopted by her aunt after her mom and dad had problems, which is not something viewers heard about when she made it to Hollywood a year ago.

All three moved on. Apparently this ?not taking the stories into account when making decisions? thing everyone talked about before the season began is not 100 percent true.

Another familiar face making a return trip was Johnny Keyser. He got bounced in Hollywood a year ago, was one of four contestants with a chance to get voted back to be a finalist, and lost out on that as well to Jermaine Jones. (Nice call on that one, America!) Performing before a panel that featured three different judges than he saw a year ago, Johnny got the second chance he was looking for.

"Hopefully you've done some work so you won't crash and burn this time," Randy Jackson said. Thanks for the support, dawg!

Also of note: Gabe Brown was discovered in Iowa City, was bused to Chicago, bribed the judges with cookies and got in despite a very unpoppy like rock vocal. If you want to get in good with the folks who count at this stage, sweets are apparently the way to go.

The judges' story lines were the same as the first episode. Mariah Carey is the one all the contestants genuflect before. Nicki Minaj is the one who does whatever it takes to keep herself from dying of boredom, whether it?s accents, deadpan humor or the slow torture of dangling faint hopes in front of overmatched contestants and watching that dreamlike optimism wither and die in their eyes. And Keith Urban is the laid-back dude who?s supposed to be normal.

But that apparently changes next week when the show moves to Charlotte, N.C., and the drama between the women on the panel really starts. Thursday night was inspiration. Next time, apparently, it?s just frustration.

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The Wearable Brand, Tracking Your Every Move - Harvard Business ...

by Mitch Joel??|?? 2:00 PM January 16, 2013

"When did you hit your goal?" In Las Vegas for a conference last week, I heard that question more times that I could count. They were talking about their NikeFuel goals, of course. It seems like people everywhere have traded in their Livestrong yellow wristbands for Nike's latest innovation, the Nike+ FuelBand. Much has already been written about the technology and gamification of an active lifestyle that Nike delivers with this hybrid of a watch, accelerometer, online social network, and digital physical activity drill sergeant. What I find even more fascinating is how there, on your wrist, each and every waking (and sleeping) moment lives the Nike brand. It becomes even more a part of you then when you slip on your swoosh-emblazoned sneakers for your daily jog. The brand is permanently there, jolting you into action, applauding your accomplishments ? and branding you.

When you study the art of branding, any good book on the subject will ? at some point early on ? turn to the etymology of the word "branding" in terms of marketing and communications. Inevitably, there is some quaint reference to cows being branding with a hot iron stick as an identifier. Because branding is all about leaving a mark (emotional, physical, you name it). An impression. A feeling. A sentiment. We live in a day and age when people not only tattoo their bodies with brands (everything from corporate logos like Harley Davidson and Budweiser to Apple and the rock band KISS), but have what Kevin Roberts (CEO Worldwide of the advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi) dubbed a "Lovemark" (a brand that delivers, "loyalty beyond reason"). If you have ever waited in line for an Apple product, you know what this means.

The next generation of connected appliances are bringing this sort of branding connection into more and more places. While Samsung was busy debuting their T9000 refrigerator at CES that features an-iPad like, connected screen built in to the fridge that can serve up recipes based on what's inside or allow you to use Evernote to create a communal shopping list with the family (lest we forget the Unilever tie-in for coupons!), the true evolution of the connected appliance could well be something we wear (along with those things that make our toast and clean our dishes). Just last week, The New York Times gave readers a first glance at Disney's pending vacation management system, MyMagic+. Guests at Disney's theme parks will wear their MyMagic+ bracelet which will bundle everything from their credit card information to their hotel room key to alerts for when it's their turn for a popular ride to being able to pre-select from the Web certain VIP experiences. All the while, Disney gets to track your every move: "MagicBands can also be encoded with all sorts of personal details, allowing for more personalized interaction with Disney employees. Before, the employee playing Cinderella could say hello only in a general way. Now ? if parents opt in ? hidden sensors will read MagicBand data, providing information needed for a personalized greeting: 'Hi, Angie,' the character might say without prompting. 'I understand it's your birthday.'"

Regular advertising is starting to feel slightly stale, isn't it? And yet there is no doubt that great advertising can inspire us to do more. To be more. There are only a handful of brands that have truly transcended traditional advertising to become iconic embodiments of our zeitgeist, whether it was Nike's simple sentiment of, "just do it" exhorting us to get up off of the couch, put the Doritos down, and take on some form of daily exercise, or Apple encouraging us to "think different" by using technology to help us create and connect. When those ads hit the airwaves, it wasn't just about selling sneakers or computers, it was about becoming something.

So what happens when brands can create something more than an advertisement to sell, engage and connect with consumers in a much deeper and more profound way? We are finding out. While the lines may not be lengthening at the tattoo parlor, it's clear that consumers are lining up to get more personal, connected and have a moment-by-moment connection to a brand. Something more permanent. It's something that few brands could have done without a multi-million dollar advertising campaign, but now it's coming down to technology, social media, big data and utilitarian marketing.

From branded apps on smartphones to connected appliances, we're now starting to see brands creep on to our bodies with robust and personalized technology that people not only don't seem to mind, but that they are generally enthused about. Consumers love having their AmazonPrice Check app at the ready to ensure that they're getting the best price possible while at the store level and, in doing so, seem to have little issue with Amazon capturing all of this highly personal and usable data about retail, pricing and how we flow through a store for them to capitalize on. Privacy and hacking concerns notwithstanding, brands that have emotional connections with consumers will be doing everything they can (and more) to further deepen this direct relationship as technology, data and our inherent desire to be connected continues to blossom.

Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/the_wearable_brand_tracking_yo.html

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Mercenary Hackers Target Android, Windows Phone, iPhone in Operation 'Red October' - N4BB

Mercenary Hackers Target Android, Windows Phone, iPhone in Operation 'Red October' - N4BB

Like something right out of a movie, a comprehensive, global cyber espionage hack campaign?has been discovered by?Russia's Kaspersky Labs.?Kaspersky's repo

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The Republicans? Plan for the New President

On the night of Barack Obama?s inauguration, a group of top GOP luminaries quietly gathered in a Washington steakhouse to?lick their wounds and ultimately create the outline of a plan for how to deal with the incoming administration.

?The room was filled. It was a who?s who of ranking members who had at one point been committee chairmen, or in the majority, who now wondered out loud whether they were in the permanent minority,? Frank Luntz, who organized the event, told FRONTLINE.

Among them were Senate power brokers Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl and Tom Coburn, and conservative congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan.

After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything. The new president had no idea what the Republicans were planning.

Tonight?s film, Inside Obama?s Presidency, explores?the behind-the-scenes story of his first four years.?With inside accounts from his battles with his Republican opponents over health care and the economy to his dramatic expansion of targeted killings of enemies, FRONTLINE examines the president?s key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term.

Check your local listings?to find out when the film will be broadcast on your local station. Util then, read our discussion with six leading journalists who weigh in on President Obama?s first term. Has he been the transformative president he wanted to be?

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CANADA: A Canadian Community Is Pleading For Help To Free About 12 Killer Whales Trapped Under A Vast Stretch Of Sea Ice. :(

The Australian

written by AP staff

Thursday January 10, 2013

A CANADIAN community is pleading for help to free about 12 killer whales trapped under a vast stretch of sea ice.

Locals in Inukjuak in northern Quebec said the mammals had gathered around a car-sized hole in the ice to get oxygen.

Mayor Peter Inukpuk urged the Canadian government to send an icebreaker as soon as possible to crack open the ice and help them find open water.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said it is sending officials to assess the problem.

?Fisheries and Oceans Canada is assessing the situation and are exploring every possible option, but will only be in a position to determine what - if anything - can be done once our specialists arrive on site,? spokesman Frank Stanek said in a statement.

A hunter first spotted the pod of about a dozen trapped whales on Tuesday at the hole, which is on the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay. Inukjuak is about 1,500 kilometres north of Montreal.

Dozens of villagers made the one-hour snowmobile ride to see the unusual spectacle. They snapped photos and shot video footage of the killer whales surfacing in the opening - and even thrusting themselves skyward while gasping for air.

One woman who made the journey to the gap in the ice said even a curious polar bear approached the hole amid the commotion. Siasie Kasudluak said the bear was shot by a local hunter for its meat.

The trapped orcas appeared to be in distress, but locals were ill-equipped to help out.

Kasudluak said the hole appeared to be shrinking in the freezing temperatures.

Mayor Peter Inukpuk believes the sudden drop in temperature recently caught the orcas off guard, leaving them boxed in under the ice.

Source: http://www.globalawareness101.org/2013/01/canada-canadian-community-is-pleading.html

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Scientific American s latest eBook takes A Look Back at The Best of 2012

It?s hard to believe that 2012 has come to a close. Lucky for us, the year saw some amazing science, and in this eBook, we?ve compiled Scientific American?s best stories of 2012 with an eye on content, authorship and news value.

Section 1 kicks off with some award-winners. First up, SA editor Katherine Harmon?s story on the role of propofol in Michael Jackson?s death. Her story won the 2012 Philip S. Weintraub Media Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Next, SA editors, especially Kate Wong, took this year?s Science in Society Award from the?National Association of Science Writers, in the Commentary or Opinion category, for an editorial in support of banning the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research. Also, two of our bloggers won awards for general excellence: Christina Agapakis and John R. Platt. Christina, who writes the ?Oscillator? blog for Scientific American, won a L?Or?al USA?Fellowships for Women In Science award, and John?s Extinction Countdown blog was awarded an Animal Action Award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Subsequent sections focus on various stories that made headlines and captured our imagination?physicists found a Higgs-like particle after decades of research, NASA landed the Curiosity rover safely on Mars and the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. The practice of fracking for natural gas also drew a lot of attention this year, and the bird flu stirred up trouble when scientists created a mutated strain that was easily spread among ferrets, a potential precursor to human-to-human transmission. The final section is devoted to technology, sports and health?especially relevant as the world watched Oscar ?Blade Runner? Pistorius become the first double-leg amputee to participate in the Olympic Games. While it?s impossible to include everything notable from the world of science in 2012, we hope you find these highlights as fascinating as we do.

Click here to buy this and other Scientific American eBooks:?http://books.scientificamerican.com/sa-ebooks/.

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DirecTV HR44 whole-home Genie HD DVR hands-on

The HR34 hasn't been around that long, but DirecTV is showing the replacement at CES, the HR44. The new box does just about everything the HR34 does, including record five HD shows at once to a 1TB hard drive, but in a smaller package. The small package also happens to be almost fan less -- there is an emergency fan that is designed to only turn on in extreme cases -- and has a faster chip. This speed improvement is noticeable on both the main TV in your house, as well as on the various clients. Speaking of which, in addition to the DirecTV C31 set-top box and 2012 Samsung HDTVs, the new 2013 Samsung and Sony HDTVs -- as well as the PS3 -- can also connect directly to the HR44 (and older HR34) and deliver the entire DirecTV Genie experience. Inside you'll find integrated WiFi, but no internal power supply. We're told that an external power supply helps keep the heat down inside, and you can see in the images below, there are large heat sinks either side and a heat pump to cool the processor. No word on price, but we'd suspect it'll be the same as the HR34 -- free for new customers, up to $300 for existing -- and we could only nail them down to "this year" in regards to availability.

In what could even be called a bigger change, is the new remote. A new simpler design, it fits perfectly in the hand. We have to say it is a sight for sore eyes to see a remote with less buttons, but we're sure more than a few people will complain about missing their favorite button. The volume and channel rockers are very small and notable. They actually click as they are pushed up and down proving great feedback, even when you aren't looking at it. We'll have to wait until we can use it for more than a moment before we're ready to say this simpler design is actually superior, but we like the direction they're going here.

Gallery: DirecTV HR44 home-home DVR hands-on

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/08/directv-hr44-whole-home-genie-hd-dvr-hands-on/

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