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"There was an air of disappointment at board level and throughout the club but what could we do?" |
Why Can't We Get a Standard Phone Charger Like Europe? |
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Apple have all agreed to use the microUSB standard in their phones made for the European market. Why can't we have that? |
No idea. We're surprised that Apple is getting in on this agreement, though, and we're wondering if the microUSB port will supplement or replace the standard Apple 30-pin iPod port. We're guessing supplement. |
Google is still evaluating applications for its Google Fiber high-speed broadband project, but one community is now on track to get a test version of the network. |
The company plans to break ground in early 2011 on a network in the Residential Subdivision at Stanford University, just a few miles north of Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters. In an entry posted Thursday to the official Google blog, Product Manager James Kelly described the Stanford network as a "beta" ... |
Google announced in February it would deploy super-fast fiber networks to homes in one or more communities in the U.S., reaching between 50,000 and 500,000 people. The idea is to seed the market for new applications, try out new ways of deploying fiber networks and build a model of an open-access network under net neut... |
At least 600 communities have submitted arguments for why they should be chosen for the high-speed network. Some have resorted to stunts, such as Topeka, Kansas, renaming itself Google for the month of March. The winners are set to be announced by the end of this year. |
The choice of Stanford's Residential Subdivision was separate from the national search, Google said. The subdivision is on the Stanford campus but is a housing area of about 850 homes owned by university faculty and staff. The layout of the area and the small number of homes there make it well-suited to the test rollou... |
The company does not know when the network will be completed and has not determined pricing for the service, according to spokesman Dan Martin. The company is not focused on making a profit from the network. |
Updated 3 p.m. Friday: Ramps from northbound Central Expressway to the Bush Turnpike will remain open this weekend. |
Central Expressway will be shut down in both directions in parts of Plano and Richardson this weekend as crews take out an overpass as part of a $37 million project to improve the Bush Turnpike interchange. |
The Texas Department of Transportation plans to divert all main-lane traffic to access roads from 2 a.m. Saturday until 5 a.m. Monday. |
The shutdown of U.S. Highway 75 between Renner Road in Richardson and 15th Street in Plano is needed to remove the Plano Parkway overpass, which sits nearly atop the southbound exit to the Bush Turnpike. |
Traffic moves on U.S. Highway 75, Central Expressway, under the Plano Parkway bridge. Central Expressway will be closed this weekend in both directions in southern Plano and northern Richardson for the partial demolition of the second half of the Plano Parkway bridge. |
Bush Turnpike exits from southbound Central Expressway are within the closed section and will not be accessible. Turnpike exits to Central will also be closed. |
The turnpike access roads do not cross Central. The nearest north-south turnpike exits are at Alma Road, Plano Road/Avenue K and Jupiter Road. All connect with 15th Street to the north and Renner to the south for access to Central Expressway. |
Also closed this weekend is the northbound Central HOV lane from LBJ Freeway to Galatyn Parkway in Richardson. An HOV lane on the southbound side, from Bethany Drive in Allen to Park Boulevard in Plano, has been closed long-term as part of the ongoing project. |
The interchange project will continue through early 2019, according to TxDOT. More than 258,000 vehicles per day use the stretch of Central Expressway, TxDOT officials said, and the interchange is among the busiest in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. |
When the segment of the turnpike opened in late 1999, the tolled road had plenty of space between Plano and Richardson. But the interchange was a forced fit between existing exits on Central, and growth in the area intensified the backups. |
The project includes moving existing Central Expressway retaining walls to make room for additional lanes near Plano Parkway. |
On the northbound side, those lanes will allow TxDOT to change the traffic pattern one exit north at 15th Street. Currently, motorists who exit at 15th have to cross the path of traffic entering Central from the turnpike. The 15th Street exit will instead be combined with the Plano Parkway exit. |
Southbound on Central, the exit to 15th is being relocated and the entrance ramp at 15th is being separated from traffic exiting at Plano Parkway. |
It will be the second consecutive weekend for a full freeway shutdown in North Texas, as TxDOT took out the Eighth Street bridge over Interstate 35E in Oak Cliff on Sunday as part of the $666 million Southern Gateway project. |
Wednesday, TxDOT announced an unrelated overnight shutdown on U.S. Highway 75, 20 miles farther north in Collin County. Southbound lanes of the freeway will be closed between Melissa Road and Mantua Road in Melissa between 9 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday. Workers will connect new entrance and exit ramps during the cl... |
Traffic moves on Highway 75 near the Plano Parkway bridge in Plano. Central Expressway will be closed this weekend in both directions in southern Plano and northern Richardson for the partial demolition of the second half of the Plano Parkway bridge. |
Opening date set for the return of a Shreveport ice cream shop. |
Marble Slab Creamery soon will reopen with a new look, new owners and a new line of flavors. |
Marble Slab Creamery is tentatively scheduled to open late-July/early-August at 1655 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, suite 600 in Shreveport. It will be just a few doors down from its previous location in the same shopping plaza. |
Marble Slab Creamery was a Shreveport staple for about 20 years until the previous owners closed shop last November, said the new co-owners Chris and Kristen Simmons. |
The husband-wife business partners are in the process of remodeling and relaunching the brand. |
"I remember going to Marble Slab as a child," Chris said. "I'm excited about Marble Slab as a brand purely as an ice cream lover. The idea of being able to invest in it on the other side of it is exciting." |
The Simmons want to uphold the Shreveport tradition of families and community members stopping in for a scoop and a good time. |
"I want people to visit and have experiences I had when I was growing up," Chris said. |
"It'll be a place for families and individuals looking for a break in the day — whether that be on a hot, summer night, after the movie, pre-movie or on date night. Nobody leaves the ice cream store mad. It's just a little bright spot in the day." |
The parents of two have already introduced and incorporated their family into the business. They've deemed their 5-year-old son as the "official ice cream taste tester," Kristen said. |
The new Marble Slab Creamery site is being renovated to adopt a modern, up-to-date look. It will be "sleeker," Chris said, with a larger dining room and additional seating. |
Customers also will notice some changes to its menu, although their unique fan favorites will make their return. |
"We offer a few flavors that are unique to Marble Slab that other places don't offer," Kristen said. "Some specific ones I've heard people have been missing is the Cinnamon Vanilla and Cheesecake and some flavors we've just become known for that you can't really get other places." |
The taste, quality and flavors of the ice cream are leading reasons for why customers have loved the company over the years, Kristen said. And the "secret" is in the recipe and creation process. |
"Some ice cream shops have their ice cream sent to their store from a warehouse," Kristen said. "Every ice cream we sell, we have personally made it ourselves in the kitchen. We use real ingredients, everything is fresh and it comes across in the taste of the product." |
If visiting Marble Slab Creamery for the first time, Kristen's recommends the Coffee ice cream. Chris recommends his favorite — Cinnamon Vanilla ice cream with pecan toppings. |
However, customers will have their choice of more than 20 rotating toppings, such as peanut butter sauce, bubblegum balls, chocolate and yellow cake pieces, and Pop Rocks. |
"Whenever a customer comes in they can get as many toppings as they want for no extra charge," Kristen said. |
A couple of new items to come on board are the Red Velvet S'mores ice cream and the Red Velvet waffle cone. |
Plus, the menu features milkshakes, smoothies, ice cream cakes, low-fat frozen yogurt and more. |
Once renovations and hiring and training the staff are complete, the Simmons will have a soft opening for the ice cream shop. It'll be followed by a grand opening celebration, to include giveaways and coupons and family-friendly activities. |
Follow The Shreveport Times for updates on the opening of Marble Slab Creamery. |
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore Lease Sale 250, held on Wednesday, attracted 159 bids from 33 participating companies, with high bids totaling $124.8 million. This was a modest increase, about $3 million, on last year's Lease Sale 249, but still low historically. |
The bides covered 148 tracts covering 815,403 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It included 14,474 unleased blocks, located from three to 231 miles offshore, in the Gulf’s Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths ranging from nine to more than 11,115 feet (three to 3,400 meters). |
Lease Sale 250 was the second offshore sale held under the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022. Under the program, 10 region-wide lease sales are scheduled for the Gulf. Two will be held each year and include all available blocks in the combined Western, Central, and Eastern Gulf ... |
William Turner, senior research analyst at Wood Mackenzie, said: “With about a 60 percent increase in acreage from August but relatively the same dollar amount and low competition, bidders got a bargain at today's lease sale. Bidding activity focused on Mississippi Canyon where operators were likely drawn to its establ... |
Shelf bidding increased this round, the possible impact of lowering the royalty rate last year finally kicking in. However, fiscal changes for deepwater, i.e. lowering the royalty rate from 18.75 percent to 12.5 percent, is expected to help turn the low bidding around in the next lease round. |
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi said the bids reflect improving but lower-than-desired commodity prices. “These are not new fields, and producers are attempting to pick the best of what is left. From that view, the bids demonstrate a solid commitment by the oil and natural gas indus... |
The Seahawks will be in action Saturday in the first round of the Class 3-A state dual tournament, taking on Gilbert at 1 p.m. in Socastee. The winner will face Socastee later Saturday. |
The Lower State individual tournament will be Feb. 15-16 at St. James. |
Bluffton High School: The Bobcats had one region champion and eight Lower State qualifiers come out of the Region 8-AAAA tournament at Ashley Ridge. |
Bluffton junior Levi Joly pinned Fort Dorchester's Tyre Wright to win the 113-pound crown. The victory was Joly's 122nd at Bluffton, putting him in second place all-time at the school behind Tyler Rosenlieb's 191 wins. Joly passed up his older brother, Lincoln, with the win. |
Other Class 4-A Lower State qualifiers for the Bobcats are: Austin Farmer (138, 2nd place), Nick Stead (106, 3rd), Eddie Salvador (120, 3rd), Khadeil Ergas (126, 3rd), Talon Seitz (132, 3rd), Mike Meyerink (152, 3rd) and Harry Chirinos (160, 4th). |
The Class 4-A Lower State tournament will be Feb. 15-16 at at Lugoff-Elgin High School. |
Middle school: Hardeeville-Ridgeland 44, North District 43 -- HRMS held on to claim the region championship. |
Middle school: Hardeeville-Ridgeland 42, North District 29 -- HRMS outscored North District 15-3 in the second quarter to capture the region championship. |
RECYCLING bosses say petitions, polls and e-mail campaigns knocking a waste collection scheme will not sway their resolve to stick by it. |
Malcolm Gaskill, the lead councillor for waste services, has defended Vale Royal Borough Council's Kerbside Recycling Scheme, which has been condemned by many residents across the borough. |
Under the scheme, household waste is collected every other week and recyclables such as tins and paper picked up on the alternate weeks. |
Many families say their wheelie bins are overflowing by collection time, but Cllr Gaskill insists the scheme has, on the whole, been a success. |
He has announced plans to consult with residents in a bid to iron out any problems which remain. |
That is despite an ongoing poll on our www.iccheshireonline.co.uk website showing residents marginally in favour of a return to a weekly collection of residual household waste, while a recent telephone and text vote showed about two-thirds of voters favoured a weekly collection, which the Chronicle is pushing for. |
Cllr Gaskill said: 'Since the Kerbside Recycling Scheme began two months ago the borough of Vale Royal has increased its recycling rate from 10% to more than 30%. |
'This dramatic increase is the result of the council and residents working together to achieve a local solution to a global problem. |
The survey will be carried in the next issue of the council's Recycling News, which will be delivered to every home in the borough during August. |
He added: 'I am aware of several petitions, polls and e-mail campaigns taking place across the borough which aim to knock the scheme and force the council to make a policy change. None of these have been conducted scientifically or audited independently, which means their results cannot be verified as accurate. Th... |
'Our Kerbside Recycling Scheme is modelled on many successful schemes across the UK, including the one employed in the Scun-thorpe constituency of the Environment Minister, Elliot Morley. |
'It is also worth noting that it is Labour Government policies that are driving forward these recycling schemes and Labour Government funding paying for these schemes. |
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The director of Detroit's health department will become Michigan's chief medical executive. |
The appointment of Dr. Joneigh Khaldun was announced Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon. Khaldun, a practicing emergency physician at Henry Ford Hospital, will start the job April 15. |
She will be a member of Whitmer's Cabinet and — as chief deputy health director — oversee population health, medical services and other areas within the Department of Health and Human Services. |
Whitmer says Khaldun "will bring strong expertise, diverse experience and deep passion to state government." |
Khaldun has led several coordinated public health responses, including Detroit's handling of the largest Hepatitis A outbreak in Michigan history. |
Imagine sitting in a café and discussing the details of a business proposal with a potential client. Neither you nor the client has a laptop; you're just two people having a conversation. But unbeknownst to you, someone half a world away is listening to every word you say. Later, as you leave, you receive a text messag... |
Recent research from two universities suggests that such a remote-eavesdropping scenario may soon be possible. |
According to George Mason University researchers Ryan Farley and Xinyuan Wang, cell phones make excellent surveillance devices for remote snoops. In a paper, Farley and Wang discuss a "modernized mic hijacker" [PDF] that an attacker could control over what they call a "roving bugnet." The eavesdropper would use a piece... |
Though fewer than 500 pieces of cell phone malware have been written since 2004, researchers have seen an explosion within the past year. Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer for F-Secure, says that 95 percent of mobile malware was written for the Symbian OS, but that's changing fast due to the success of Apple's iPh... |
Given the relative scarcity of mobile malware, Farley and Wang conducted experiments on Windows XP and Mac OS laptops. The researchers directed their bugbot to join an Internet Relay Chat channel so that they could remotely enable and disable each laptop's microphone to stream real-time conversations occurring in the a... |
Researchers at Rutgers University--Jeffrey Bickford, Ryan O'Hare, Arati Baliga, Vinod Ganapathy, and Liviu Iftode--announced in a 2010 paper that they had successfully demonstrated possible attack methods by creating mobile phone rootkits [PDF], malware that burrows deep into the operating system. |
The researchers were able to hit three specific mobile features, attacking the battery (to keep the user from turning on the phone), GPS services (to snag location data), and voice and messaging (to listen to voice messages and retrieve old texts). |
If your smartphone were to be infected in any of those ways, you probably wouldn't even notice--even if you're a sophisticated user. Because security software generally sees operating systems as trustworthy, rootkits tucked deep within an OS can go undetected for a long time. In fact, desktop antimalware products have ... |
The researchers built their rootkits for Neo Freerunner smartphones, which run the Openmoko Linux-distribution operating system. Google Android uses Linux, and therefore could be attacked right away. The Rutgers team says that with a little work the Linux rootkits could be ported to the Apple iPhone OS, Windows Mobile,... |
The simplest rootkit, which targets a smartphone's battery, would need only to enable Bluetooth or the phone's GPS function to drain the power--and it could do so without your even realizing it. Unless you carefully studied your smartphone, you might not see the tiny icons indicating that multiple power-draining servic... |
More sinister is the rootkit that grants third-party access to your GPS information. Even when you're not using your mobile phone, the GPS service keeps tabs on your whereabouts; such information, when exposed to a less-than-trustworthy person, would take stalking to a new level. |
The most harmful rootkit, however, would access your voice and text messages. The Rutgers team constructed a rootkit that relayed text messages over to a third party. If your phone were so compromised, whenever you sent or received a new text message, a cybercriminal would get a copy, too. |
What About the App Store? |
Even Apple's tightly controlled iPhone App Store could potentially house malicious apps or bugbots. At Black Hat DC 2010 (a security conference), Nicolas Seriot of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland demonstrated how a malicious program could bypass the App Store's strict filters [PDF]. Seriot, an iP... |
Seriot also challenged Apple's assertion that third-party apps on the device are sandboxed so that system files, resources, and the OS kernel are shielded from the user's application space. He showed the audience that a malicious third-party application--not even a rootkit--could provide remote access to the iPhone's c... |
As the Rutgers study states, "the pervasive nature of smart phones and a large, unsophisticated user base also make smart phones particularly attractive to attackers." In general, you should be suspicious of phone downloads--even ringtones--as such files could harbor malware. But you also need security software for you... |
One startup is going a step beyond. In addition to blocking malware, Lookout, a mobile security tool that is free at this writing, offers a suite of defenses: a mobile firewall, mobile data backup (which allows you to return your phone to a preinfected state), and the ability to wipe a lost or stolen phone remotely. |
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Is the distance required to be eligible for school bus service too far? On Wednesday, Halifax Regional School Board members voted to ask the education minister to consider reducing it. Global’s Steve Silva reports. |
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