http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/governance/servicemanagement/?cm_mmc=agus_itmbitivv_20090810-usitv021-_-n-_-po1-_-y
IBM employees speak about how current infrastructure constrains change whereas a dynamic infrastructure enables companies to respond quickly to change. In this video, IBM’ers discuss solutions they’re working on to face today’s challenges, in an era when trillions of things are going to be connected to the internet, and how dynamic infrastructure can be used to build smart utility grids, smart traffic systems, smart medicine — ultimately the building blocks of a smarter planet.
Transcript: [IBMer 1]
Well right now what I am working on is finding ways to deal with all of the trillions of things that are going to be connected to the internet.
[IBMer 2]
We are looking to change the way information is processed, stored, delivered, and transmitted.
[IBMer 3]
You could use this virtual environment to save more energy and manage large systems.
[IBMer 4]
By making this smarter, we are allowing the electric grid to work with your home to better manage your electricity.
[IBMer 5]
This RFID chip can track shipments in real time, and to retailers that is everything.
[IBMer 6]
Heres an equation that can help prevent traffic jams.
[IBMer 7]
Information systems that are smarter about security and privacy are helping the world work better.
[IBMer 5]
A smart world is built with smart people.
[Rotating IBMers]
Smarter infrastructure
Smarter water systems
Smart utility girds
Smart traffic systems
Smarter medicine
Smarter supply chains
And that is what I am working on
That is what I do
Thats what we are working on
Im an IBMer
I am an IBMer
Lets build a smarter planet.
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http://www.taipanfinancialnews.com — With the commodities super cycle in full swing, cobalt prices have more than doubled in a year, with prices passing $32 per pound. This incredible growth is due to rapid demand growth especially in the Asian economies. China’s share of world cobalt consumption alone has increased from 3 percent in 1997 to 20 percent in 2006. In this TFN Smart Trading Action Alert, host Laura Cadden looks at rising demand and supply shortages for cobalt. Her guest, Andrew Mickey, points out recent developments that could propel a select mining microcap to new price records.If the integrated link within the video doesn’t work on this viewer, click on this link or paste it into your browser: http://www.isecureonline.com/reports/SCC/WSCCH306/
TFN Video recommendation: If you enjoyed this program, you might also like the following Smart Trading Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISvdePxhoA
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AsiaBSDCon 2009 Keynote Speech. Speaker:
Eric Allman is the original author of sendmail, and a long time contributor to Berkeley UNIX. He also wrote the -me macros, tset, trek, syslog, and vacation. Besides UNIX and sendmail, Eric has worked on database management, window systems, neural-net-based speech recognition, system administration, and networking.
Allman is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Sendmail, Inc. Before joining Sendmail, Allman served as CTO for Sift, Inc., which is now part of 24/7 Media, Inc. He was lead developer and provided a large-scale research software infrastructure on the Mammoth project at U.C. Berkeley. Allman has contributed as a senior developer at the International Computer Science Institute to neural network systems design. Allman was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System.
Formerly, Allman co-authored the “C Advisor” column for UNIX Review magazine and was a member of the Board of Directors of USENIX Association. He is currently a Program Chair for the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam and a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Review Board and the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances.
Allman holds an Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Abstract:
Email existed before the Internet was invented, and grew with the Internet over six orders of magnitude. Email has gone from serving a small community of highly technical colleagues to being ubiquitous, even for people who are not technically adept. It has changed from a tiny, no-profit service to a billion dollar business.
But email has not gone without growing pains. Spam, viruses, and phishing are just two examples of malware that didn’t even exist when email was born. Email has changed both business and social lives in ways both good and bad. Some of those pressures have pushed users from email to Instant Messaging and Social Networking. Today the research and development of email has focused on control, either “on the wire” (anti-spam, data loss prevention, etc.) or directly for the user (such as mobile access or managing information overload).
This talk covers the history of email and reviews where we are today, including current technologies such as email authentication (DKIM and SenderID) and reputation. It concludes with some personal speculation about how email will continue to grow both short- and long-term.
Duration : 1:26:24
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http://www.ForexAutopilotRobot.com – Forex Swing Trading with Elliott Wave
When evaluating the forex market for swing trade opportunities the focus is placed on predicting directional changes or continuations for a given currency pair. For this we rely on technical analysis.
In technical analysis, just as in fundamental analysis, there are lagging indicators and leading indicators. One of the most reliable tools used to predict forex market swings is Elliott Wave analysis. Elliott Wave analysis can be used to identify trends and countertrends, trend continuation or exhaustion and to evaluate the potential price targets of a trend.
You can apply Elliott Wave analysis to both long and short position swing trade set ups for your currency pairs.
Elliott Wave theory is named after Ralph Nelson Elliott, who concluded that the markets moved in a repetitive pattern of waves. He attributed this action to the mass psychology of the market.
Elliott concluded that the markets movement was a direct result of the mass psychology of the time and that the stock market is a fractal. A fractal is an object that is similar in shape, but at different scales. A great example of a fractal in nature is a stalk of broccoli. The stalk and the individual branches look exactly the same; just the branches are smaller in scale.
Fractals just happen to form in accordance with Fibonacci ratios. Is this a coincidence?
Elliott attributes this mass psychological move to the human trait of herding. Even though Elliotts theories were based on stock market price movements, it has been applied to evaluating Presidential approval ratings and fashion trends changes as well.
The conclusion, the market price actions are not the cause of economic growth or slow down, but the reflection of the mass psychology of investors. If the mood of the investing public is upbeat then a bull market ensues. This is counter to what most individual perceive, that because there is a bull market the mood of the investing public is upbeat.
Elliott Wave patterns follow a sequence that the markets move up in a series of 3 waves and down in a series of 2 waves. This 3 wave impulse and 2 wave corrective sequence form the foundation of the 5 Wave impulse pattern (the opposite is true in a downtrend).
The Elliott Wave Counts are as follows;
Wave 1 – Short Covering
Wave 2 – Pullback from Short Covering
Wave 3 – Major Rally Phase
Wave 4 – Institution Pause in the Rally
Wave 5 – Retail Buying
Wave 1 is usually the weakest of the impulse waves. It is a brief rally based on short covering of the bears from a previous move down. When Wave 1 is complete, the currency pair sells off, creating Wave 2.
Wave 2 ends when the market fails to make new lows. You often see dominant reversals patterns form at the end of this wave signaling the being of the rally phase or Wave 3.
Wave 3 is the longest and strongest of the impulse waves. This signals strong currency buying or selling in the direction of the trend. This trend usually starts of slowly, but tends to accelerate as it breaks to new highs above the top of Wave 1.
Like any trend, especially a strong trend a correction will occur. Traders will begin to take profits and the currency pair will retrace. This signals the beginning of Wave 4.
Again the currency pair will rally ushering in the Wave 5 rally. Wave 5 is typically supported by the retail traders and not institutional buyers (the herd) and tends to lack the momentum generated in the Wave 3 rally. This creates divergence that can be easily measured on any technical oscillator. After the currency pair breaks to new highs above the previous Wave 3 high, the rally loses steam and changes trend.
This trend change can result in either a new 5 Wave impulse pattern or a corrective in nature.
Now that we know what the Elliott Wave analysis is, how would a currency trade using this analysis look like, just as an example?
Look to Wave 5 as the most reliably tradable impulse wave. The trade sets up as follows. Look for the Elliott Oscillator to pull back between 90% and 140% of the Wave 3 high on a daily chart. This pullback should correspond to a 38%-62% Fibonacci retracement from the Wave 2 extension. This signal is the strongest when the Fibonacci retracement is between 38% – 50%.
Like any technical analysis tool you never want to employ an indicator as a stand alone analysis tool. A trigger and a confirming indicator are required as well.
Forex Swing Trading with Elliott Wave
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National Planning Excellence Awards
Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan
City of San Diego General Plan
San Diego, California
The City of San Diego General Plan (2008) sets out a long-range vision and policy framework for how the city should plan for growth, provide public services, and maintain the qualities that define San Diego. It was structured to work in concert with the city’s 40-plus community plans and is part of a regional and statewide smart growth strategy.
The plan includes the City of Villages smart growth strategy to focus growth into mixed-use villages that are pedestrian-friendly districts, of different scales, and linked to the transit system. The plan addresses protections for industrial lands, provisions for urban parks, “toolboxes” to implement mobility strategies, and policies to further the preservation of San Diego’s historical resources. It also reaffirms the city’s long history of protecting open space lands.
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National Planning Leadership Award for a Distinguished Contribution
William E. Borah
Land use planning in New Orleans has traditionally been described as “planning by surprise.” Citizens and neighborhood organizations have attempted to change the city’s planning processes for years, but have had limited success. Inspiration for change came from one of the country’s most significant natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina. The damage from the hurricane and its aftermath was the necessary catalyst to motivate the city’s citizens. On November 4, 2008, voters approved the Home Rule Charter Amendments, which require the city to prepare a master plan with the force of law.
One of the major forces advocating for this change was William E. Borah, a New Orleans-based land use attorney and member of Smart Growth for Louisiana. Borah drafted the initial proposed charter amendment, sought comment from planning experts around the country, and organized a support campaign. Colleagues from around the country attribute the passage of the amendment to Borah’s unwavering persistence.
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American Makeover is a six-part web series on new urbanism, the antidote to sprawl. More info and content at www.americanmakeover.tv. Produced by First+Main Media.
Episode 1 was filmed on location in Atlanta, Georgia and Glenwood Park, a new urbanist influenced neighborhood near downtown Atlanta.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Directed/Shot/Edited: John Paget | PagetFilms.com
Animation/Graphics: Kerry Brogan
Producer: Chris Elisara
Creative: Drew Ward
Location Producer: Joanna Pritchard
Duration : 0:9:48
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Part 5 of the documentary Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey. With the construction of Metro, Arlington had to plan for the ensuing development around Metro stations.
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This turkey will raise your taxes,increase the cost of cars and gasoline,stunt economic growth and basically will ruin the economy.Visit www.globalwarmingheartland.org Do you think the truth can save you?
I love the blind moronic response.Do you people even question the fact the gov. is trying to screw you!!!!!!!
It has nothing to do about saving the planet! It is sheer human arrogance to think we can affect the weather.To all you believers- they cannot accurately predict tommorrows weather.Wake up!Its about controlling you and your $$$$$$$$$.
haha, ive known that stuff for years now. i believe that this manmade global warming thing is without a doubt the biggest lie ever told to mankind. People who actually believe we are causing it/making it faster kind of make me feel sad for them. They believe everything they hear on from all these environmental groups with alternate agendas, and governement agencies collecting millions every year from their fear-mongering campaigns to get money. It sickens me that people don’t even try to look at both sides of an issue. There is no proof anything that man does is causing an increase in warming. Cause its certaintly not CO2 seeing as how temperature leads CO2 by an average of 800 or so years. All the greenhouse gases minus water vapor make up 5.5% of all greenhouse gases, really not enough to cause an increase in warming, which is actually caused by the oceans and the sun.
Too bad all the scientists who are against man made global warming get silenced by environmental groups or have their data messed with like with the IPCC and the UN.
any ideas? I heard that playing music to it even before its born will stimulate brain growth.
(and no, I dont have a pregnat GF, I’m just asking for when I get married….I like to plan ahead)
(pregnant*)
Make sure mom breastfeeds. It helps baby grow healthier and smarter.
Talk to your baby a lot after it is born. Narate what you’re doing when changing a diaper, etc. Sing to baby. Read to baby a lot and let him see you reading too.
Be an active and involved parent.
Learning can be part of every day fun. Count the stairs as you climb them. Talk about colors and shapes while you grocery shop. Play "I spy" in the store to find "the red circle" or "the blue box" etc.