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Google has announced that they will be bringing their prototype 1Gbps fiber optic network to Kansas City, Kansas. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : gearfuse Discovery Date : 30/03/2011 19:05 Number of articles : 5
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40-year-old dog handler held after vehicle searched in a car park off Pudding Mill Lane A female security guard has been arrested near London’s Olympic stadium site on suspicion of possessing explosives, it has emerged. The 40-year-old dog handler was held after her vehicle was searched in a car park off Pudding Mill Lane on Tuesday, but police said the incident was not thought to be terror-related. Scotland Yard said the woman was arrested on suspicion of possession of a “very small amount of a substance” that was being forensically examined. The suspect is currently being held in custody at an east London police station. The arrest was made by the officers from the Olympic Site Support Unit following information received by police. Officials said another car was stopped and searched on the M11, but nothing was found in the car, and the driver was not arrested. Searches were also carried out at residential addresses in Kent and London, but no further substances were found. In a statement the Met insisted that the incident “did not represent a threat to the safety and security of the Olympic site.” A spokesman for the Olympic Delivery Authority said: “There are robust measures to ensure the safety and security of the Olympic Park. We are working with the police in their investigation. At no point has the safety and security of the Olympic Park been put at risk.” A spokesman for G4S, which provides security for the Olympics, said: “G4S take breach of operational processes very seriously and are assisting the police with their inquiries in relation to this incident.” The arrest came on the same day that building work at the £486m Olympic stadium was completed. Olympic Games 2012 Police London Crime G4S Rowenna Davis guardian.co.uk
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David Sokol, considered the most likely candidate to succeed the billionaire investor, resigns after purchasing Lubrizol shares The heir apparent to business icon Warren Buffett’s investment firm has quit under an oily cloud. David Sokol, long considered the most likely candidate to succeed the billionaire investor as the head of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, resigned after purchasing shares in an oil company that he suggested Buffett should buy. But Buffett moved to scotch rumours that the purchase had anything to do with the resignation. In a statement Buffett said Sokol had told him he owned shares in the chemical company, Lubrizol Corp, when they first discussed the deal in January. Buffett said that neither Sokol nor he felt that “his Lubrizol purchases were in any way unlawful” and that they were not a factor in his decision to resign. “Dave brought the idea for purchasing Lubrizol to me on either 14 or 15 January. Initially, I was unimpressed, but after his report of a 25 January talk with its CEO, James Hambrick, I quickly warmed to the idea,” Buffett said in a statement. “Though the offer to purchase was entirely my decision, supported by Berkshire’s board on 13 March, it would not have occurred without Dave’s early efforts.” According to Buffett, Sokol purchased 2,300 shares of Lubrizol on 14 December, which he then sold on 21 December. In early January Sokol bought 96,060 shares with a price limit set at $104 (£64) per share, Buffett said. Berkshire agreed to acquire Lubrizol for $9bn, or $135 a share, on March 14. Sokol’s stake potentially earned him a profit of about $3m in less than three months. Buffett said Sokol told him “that they were not a factor in his decision to resign.” Sokol’s resignation “came as a surprise to me,” said Buffett. “Dave’s contributions have been extraordinary,” he said. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sokol said his resignation has “had absolutely nothing to do” with Lubrizol. He admitted “it would look bad 60 days later” if his stake in Lubrizol was disclosed in public filings and Berkshire hadn’t said anything about it. “We wanted it all out,” he said. Part of Sokol’s resignation letter was contained in the statement. “As I have mentioned to you in the past, it is my goal to utilise the time remaining in my career to invest my family’s resources in such a way as to create enduring equity value and hopefully an enterprise which will provide opportunity for my descendants and funding for my philanthropic interests,” he said. Sokol’s resignation is a major blow to Buffett. The 80-year-old investor is known as the Sage of Omaha and is arguably the world’s most respected businessman. While he has said he has no plans to step aside, the race to succeed him has been keenly watched and Sokol, 54, who helped run several Berkshire subsidiaries has been seen as the front runner. The resignation comes as Buffett prepares for his annual meeting in his home town of Omaha next month. Often called the Woodstock of capitalism, thousands of shareholders attend and Buffett is bound to be grilled on his succession plans and the reasons for Sokol’s resignation. Warren Buffett United States Oil Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Why Is The Politico’s Mike Allen Pimping Noted Smear Merchant And Faker Andrew Breitbart’s New Book?
March 30, 2011 No Comment
I make it a policy to avoid The Politico for the same reason I avoid Fox News Channel. Both are filled with ridiculous right wing propaganda and live for nothing more than mention on Matt Drudge’s braincell-killing site under the pathetic notion of Drudge’s influence. An influence felt only inside the Beltway bubble. However, many people I know in DC politics (including a dismaying number of liberals) go to Mike Allen’s Playbook column for the daily round up of notable news of the day. It’s a pithy, mostly right-wing focused (unsurprising from the son of conservative journalist and John Birch Society member Gary Allen ) collection of quotes, links and heads up on stories. Yesterday, one of the top stories of Allen’s Playbook yesterday was a jocular and whimsical pimping of Andrew Breitbart’s new book, complete with helpful Amazon.com link. enlarge The text read as follows: FIRST LOOK – “RIGHTeous IndigNATION: Excuse Me While I Save the World!” by Andrew Breitbart (out April 15 from Grand Central Publishing): “I live on the battlefield. … If the American media were run by biased but not evil Tim Russerts and David Brinkleys, I wouldn’t have joined the fight. …. The left made me do it! I swear! I am a reluctant cultural warrior. … If you met me in 1992, for some odd reason, I would have told you I was a libertarian, and I voted for Ross Perot. The only awkward memory that haunts me more is my roller-disco period. … [I]t was the Drudge Report that really grabbed me … To borrow a phrase: Drudge was hope and change. … He was not just a threat to the political order – he was also a threat to the business model of the mainstream media. … “News flash to the media: It’s not your business model that sucks. It’s you that suck. … But the Democrat-Media Complex isn’t enormously powerful because they give up easily. … It’s a long war. I know. I’ve lost friends. I have the scars. My wife married an almost inappropriately always-lighthearted guy fourteen years ago. Now she wakes up next to a firebrand who is one of the most polarizing figures in the country. … These are the years that we will look back on and question whether we did enough for our country and for our children. That’s why I’m so determined, so pissed, so righteously indignant.” $14.73 on Amazon Wow. Grandiose much? Hey, Breitbart, Charlie Sheen called and said you need to stop stealing his act. Now I’m not begrudging Breitbart his right to find a publisher willing to publish his special brand of parenthetical stream of consciousness writing and self-aggrandizement. Bully for him, everyone has a talent and he’s clearly using his to the fullest. But I have to ask at what point will Mike Allen not wanted to be tainted by association with the man who was caught selectively editing video of Shirley Sherrod to smear this decent and dedicated public servant and inspiring civil rights leader ? The same man who brought punk hack James O’Keefe to the national forefront with his doctored videos that have taken down ACORN and the head of NPR? And don’t get me started on his pussy attempt to cage Amato’s notes in a panel discussion . He’s lucky that Karoli was there instead of me, because you can be damned sure I’d have made sure everyone in the audience knew. You’ll note that these black marks go unmentioned in Allen’s recap. Had Breitbart been a liberal or a Democrat with this kind of serious hits on his integrity and credibility, you know that Allen would not deign to mention him, or at best, do so in a sneering way. But proving once again that in the “librul media” IOKIYAR, Allen seems blissfully fine with the Breitbart taint on his pimping (pun intended). Allen is still going to act like Breitbart is relevant and worthy of attention. Which makes–as far as I’m concerned–everything else that Allen pimps equally suspect. If the book sounds intriguing to you (or at least, good for a laugh or two), don’t worry, folks. If you’re a little patient, I’m sure you’ll find it in the remainder bins for 99¢ soon enough.
Continue reading …President Obama laid out his energy plan for America, with the headline-grabbing line that he intends to cut oil imports by a third in about a decade. Read the full text here . A quick survey of bloggers of all stripes finds them underwhelmed, in part because they don’t see much…
Continue reading …Kinect dives into anime cyberspace, dares you to catch cute robot tanks (video)
March 30, 2011 No Comment
If your foremost dream is to jack into a dystopian cyberpunk reality where hackers play with human brains (and you also happen to love Japanese anime), you’d best book your flight to Tokyo right now — a Shibuya department store has set up a basic cyberspace simulator straight out of Ghost in the Shell . That’s the film Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society , to be precise, which just got a stereoscopic 3D re-release in Japan this week, and in its honor creative services company Kayac set about constructing a high-quality Kinect hack . Microsoft’s depth camera tracks the lean of your body, while the honeyed virtual reality is projected onto a pair of nearby walls, and it’s your objective to slap the Tachikoma tank silly without falling over yourself. Get a peek at what it’s like to play with in the video above. Kinect dives into anime cyberspace, dares you to catch cute robot tanks (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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