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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Outbound calls from desktop Gmail are back, with free calling to the US and Canada
Today Google has brought back the ability to make phone calls from desktop Gmail, Google+ and via its Chrome extension, and also announced that calls to the US and Canada are free (from countries where Hangouts calling is available. The feature disappeared when Google introduced its new Hangouts setup, but a post on the Gmail blog claims that now it's better than ever. According to the company, "Hangouts is designed to be the future of Google Voice," with making and receiving calls just the beginning. For now, users can enjoy new features like adding multiple phone numbers and video participants to the same call, and using sound effects from the Google Effects app. Current Hangouts users should see a new phone icon in Gmail, or a "call a phone" menu item in Google+ and the Chrome extension.
Source: Gmail Blog
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Shell names van Beurden as surprise choice for CEO
By Sarah Young and Kate Holton
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell
Analysts and investors had not considered van Beurden, who has worked for the company for 30 years, as a possible contender to replace Voser next year.
Their early focus was on Finance Director Simon Henry and other divisional heads Marvin Odum, Matthias Bichseland and Andrew Brown.
Voser, who built the oil company into a leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and was finance director at the company before taking the helm in 2009, shocked the industry by announcing his early departure over two months ago.
Shares in Shell gained 1 percent in early trading on Tuesday following the appointment of the relatively unknown van Beurden, who only joined the company's executive committee in January.
"It's initially something of a surprise. The question is, who is this guy," Royal Bank of Canada analyst Peter Hutton said.
Shell said van Beurden, a 55-year-old Dutchman, had a deep knowledge of the industry, having worked across a range of businesses and countries since he joined the firm in 1983.
"Ben will continue to drive and further develop the strategic agenda that we have set out, to generate competitive returns for our shareholders," said Chairman Jorma Ollila.
Van Beurden, whose new job will start next January, has worked in both the upstream and downstream parts of the company including within the increasingly important LNG business for 10 years.
His appointment comes as the company and its industry face huge challenges.
Shell is the western world's number two company by production behind Exxon Mobil
Amongst the other candidates who had been tipped as possible replacements for Voser were the company's head of upstream operations in the Americas, Marvin Odum, director of projects and technology Matthias Bichseland and Andrew Brown, who became head of international upstream last year.
RBC's Hutton pointed out that while the appointment of van Beurden was a surprise, Shell had in the past named bosses from the downstream, or refining, part of the business including Voser's predecessor Jeroen van der Veer.
He oversaw the initial stages of a recovery at Shell, which a decade ago was engulfed by crisis following a dramatic downgrade of reserves which rocked investor confidence when it became public in 2004.
Van Beurden, a chemical engineering graduate, has first-hand experience of the reserves crisis. He worked at the time as management assistant to Phil Watts, the CEO who was sacked as a result.
"He was clearly a high-flyer then and I am not surprised at all that he's made it all the way to the top," said a former colleague who no longer works for Shell.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Callus; Editing by Erica Billingham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shell-names-beurden-ceo-vosers-replacement-062142509.html
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Rapper 50 Cent Makes Alec Baldwin Seem Like A Good Dad!
Rapper 50 Cent Makes Alec Baldwin Seem Like A Good Dad!
Rapper 50 Cent verbally abused his 16-year-old son, Marquise, in a series of truly horrific text messages. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, called his son horrible names and even told his son not to contact him anymore. Remember Alec Baldwin caught on voicemails calling his daugher Ireland a “rude, thoughtless pig”? Well ...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Photos from Nokia Lumia 1020 revealed on Windows Phone executive's Flickr account
A few days after Nokia's 41-megapixel Windows Phone surfaced in a leaked press shot, a set of photos apparently from the handset have popped up on a Windows Phone executive's Flickr account under the device name?Nokia Lumia 1020.
Read:?Nokia Lumia 1020 press pic leaked
Joe Belfiore, a Windows Phone manager at Microsoft, posted a bevy of Lumia Windows Phone pictures recently, but two of them appear to have come from a phone called the Nokia Lumia 1020, as first noted by The Verge. According to EXIF and Flickr data, the cropped pictures were posted in both 3.7MP and 5MP sizes and reveal a wide-aperture f/2.2 lens.?
Read:?Nokia teases 41-megapixel Lumia camera phone ahead of 11 July event
Nokia will supposedly unveil a 41-megapixel Windows Phone?at an event in New York on 11 July. The company has previously teased what's in store with an invitation that baited "41 million reasons to zoom in."?Featuring a 41-megapixel camera, the upcoming handset has circulated under a variety of codenames like EOS, 909 and 1020.
Since media coverage of the Flickr shots began on Monday, Belfiore has marked the Nokia Lumia 1020 images?as private.
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40 still missing in deadly Canada train derailment; police say higher death toll inevitable
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec ? About 40 people were still missing a day after a runaway train derailed in Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a busy downtown district and killed five people. Police said a higher death toll was inevitable, and authorities feared the number might soar once they're able to reach the hardest-hit areas. Worries remained over the status of two oil-filled train cars.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper compared the area to a war zone and said about 30 buildings were incinerated. Quebec provincial police Sgt. Beno?t Richard said only a small part of the devastated area had been searched Sunday, more than a day since the accident, because firefighters were making sure all fires were out.
The train's 72 oil-filled tanker cars somehow came loose early Saturday morning, sped downhill nearly seven miles (11 kilometers) into the town, derailed and began exploding one by one. At least five exploded.
The eruptions sent residents of Lac-Megantic scrambling through the streets under the intense heat of towering fireballs and a red glow that illuminated the night sky. The district is a popular area packed with bars that often bustles on summer weekend nights. Police said the first explosion tore through the town shortly after 1 a.m. local time. Fire then spread to several homes.
Two tanker cars were burning Sunday morning, and authorities were still worried about them Sunday evening. Local Fire Chief Denis Lauzon said firefighters were staying 500 feet (150 meters) from the tankers, which were being doused with water and foam to keep them from overheating.
"This is an unbelievable disaster," said Harper, who toured the town Sunday. "This is an enormous area, 30 buildings just completely destroyed, for all intents and purposes incinerated. There isn't a family that is not affected by this."
The growing number of trains carrying crude oil in Canada and the United States had raised concerns of a major derailment.
One death was confirmed Saturday. Police confirmed two people were found dead overnight and confirmed two more deaths Sunday afternoon. The charred remains were sent to Montreal for identification.
A coroner's spokeswoman said it may not be possible to recover some of the bodies because of the intensity of the blasts.
Locals were convinced the death toll was far higher than five. Anne-Julie Huot, 27, said at least five friends and about 20 acquaintances remained unaccounted for. She said she was lucky to be working that night, otherwise she likely would have been at a popular bar that was leveled in the blast.
Source: http://www.startribune.com/world/214510151.html
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African Americans with blood cancer do not live as long as caucasians, despite equal care
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A new analysis has found that among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, African Americans more commonly present with advanced disease, and they tend to have shorter survival times than Caucasians despite receiving the same care. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results suggest that biological factors may account for some racial disparities in cancer survival.
Among cancer patients, minorities tend to have a worse prognosis than Caucasians for reasons that are unclear. In African American patients, lower socioeconomic status and limited access to high-quality care often can play a role, but some researchers propose that certain cancers can behave more aggressively in minority individuals, which also can lead to worse outcomes.
Because chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of blood cancer, is rare in African Americans, investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Duke University Medical Center in Durham led a study that combined the two centers' experiences with African American and Caucasian patients. Their analysis included 84 African American patients and 1,571 non-black patients referred to the two centers. All patients, regardless of race, had access to healthcare services and received the same treatments. "We sought to isolate race as a prognostic factor from other known demographic and clinical prognostic parameters in CLL," explained Dr. Falchi.
The investigators found that while the time from diagnosis (made either incidentally or because of clinical symptoms) to referral was shorter for African Americans than Caucasian patients, African Americans were more likely to have CLL that was more advanced at the time of referral. Also, although African Americans responded as well to first-line therapy as Caucasian patients, their cancer progressed more rapidly and their survival was shorter. The inferior survival of African American patients persisted when patients were grouped according to factors related to the severity of their disease.
"These findings suggest that while inducing similarly high response rates, standard treatments do not overcome racial differences in outcome among patients with CLL," said Dr. Ferrajoli. She added that a number of questions remain unanswered. For example, do distinct biologic characteristics of African American patients with CLL account for the disparities seen in this study? And will these findings hold in the general population, where the impact of socioeconomic status may be more varied?
In an accompanying editorial, Christopher Flowers, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and Barbara Pro, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, noted that to adequately study disparities in leukemia, investigators will need to collect specimens and clinical data from patients to examine the potential impact of molecular and biologic markers. "Future studies in CLL can use this work as a cornerstone for investigating racial disparities in this disease," they wrote.
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A new analysis has found that among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, African Americans more commonly present with advanced disease, and they tend to have shorter survival times than Caucasians despite receiving the same care. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results suggest that biological factors may account for some racial disparities in cancer survival.
Among cancer patients, minorities tend to have a worse prognosis than Caucasians for reasons that are unclear. In African American patients, lower socioeconomic status and limited access to high-quality care often can play a role, but some researchers propose that certain cancers can behave more aggressively in minority individuals, which also can lead to worse outcomes.
Because chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of blood cancer, is rare in African Americans, investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Duke University Medical Center in Durham led a study that combined the two centers' experiences with African American and Caucasian patients. Their analysis included 84 African American patients and 1,571 non-black patients referred to the two centers. All patients, regardless of race, had access to healthcare services and received the same treatments. "We sought to isolate race as a prognostic factor from other known demographic and clinical prognostic parameters in CLL," explained Dr. Falchi.
The investigators found that while the time from diagnosis (made either incidentally or because of clinical symptoms) to referral was shorter for African Americans than Caucasian patients, African Americans were more likely to have CLL that was more advanced at the time of referral. Also, although African Americans responded as well to first-line therapy as Caucasian patients, their cancer progressed more rapidly and their survival was shorter. The inferior survival of African American patients persisted when patients were grouped according to factors related to the severity of their disease.
"These findings suggest that while inducing similarly high response rates, standard treatments do not overcome racial differences in outcome among patients with CLL," said Dr. Ferrajoli. She added that a number of questions remain unanswered. For example, do distinct biologic characteristics of African American patients with CLL account for the disparities seen in this study? And will these findings hold in the general population, where the impact of socioeconomic status may be more varied?
In an accompanying editorial, Christopher Flowers, MD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and Barbara Pro, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, noted that to adequately study disparities in leukemia, investigators will need to collect specimens and clinical data from patients to examine the potential impact of molecular and biologic markers. "Future studies in CLL can use this work as a cornerstone for investigating racial disparities in this disease," they wrote.
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Picasso Masterpiece on Display at UM President?s Office
MISSOULA ? Pablo Picasso?s ?Head of a Woman/Tete de femme? is on display at the University of Montana President?s Office reception area in Main Hall through Aug. 22. The 1903 painting is on loan to the Montana Museum of Art & Culture through a private collection.
?Tete de femme? is from Picasso?s Blue Period, a style that emerged around 1900 and lasted to 1904, coinciding with the artist?s move to Paris. The Blue Period is typified by heavy black lines and somber shades of blue and green. Paintings from the Blue Period depict the poorest residents of the Montmartre district and at the time they were created, brought Picasso little success. However, they are now considered among his most popular works.
Following the tradition of French Symbolist painters such as Odilon Redon and Puvis de Chavannes, Picasso used color to convey emotional qualities. His Blue Period works were influenced by his depression and the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas.
?Tete de femme? was first owned by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who championed the new art of Cubism and whose poems ushered in Modernity.
This special loan is accompanied by a Picasso lithograph from MMAC?s Permanent Collection ?The Old King/Le Vieux Roi? from 1959.
?We hope many campus visitors take this very special opportunity to see these Picassos in our summer tribute to one of the most important artists of the last century,? said Barbara Koostra, director of the MMAC.
For more information call MMAC at 406-243-2019 or visit the museum?s website at http://www.umt.edu/montanamuseum.
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Note to media: Digital images of the painting and lithographs are available. To request a copy, call Shawn Whitworth at 406-243-2019 or email shawn.whitworth@mso.umt.edu.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
2 Southern California ski resorts for sale
Two Southern California ski resorts that draw visitors from around the world may get a new owner.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise says the corporation that owns Snow Summit and Bear Mountain is up for sale - and there's no minimum price.
Snow Summit Ski Corp. has hired an international banking firm to sell its 60-year-old operations. President Richard Kun says the board of directors has no idea what the sale might bring.
The resort properties include more than two dozen ski lifts along with a golf course and a zip-line ride.
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