GPS Direction Brings GPS Back To Its Roots

Before GPS started to become ubiquitous and part of most every device out there, it was part of its own much simpler line of devices. The app known as GPS Direction, meanwhile, looks to bring that era back, but with some extra touches that will likely prove very welcome for users.

GPS Direction is set up to work with any iOS device running at least iOS 4.0 or later. While it doesn?t appear to be optimized for iPhone 5, it will at least work with it. This is a good thing, of course, as it has plenty to offer for being an extraordinarily simple app. GPS Direction offers users most of what would be expected from an app called GPS Direction, allowing users to establish a target point, and then get directions to that target point from their current location. Those using this app will have multiple display options, including a basic compass view that points the correct direction to travel and moves when they do, or on a route map, which shows users where they are relative to where their intended location is and all from the same map.

It?s not exactly a very complex app, which in this case works very well for it. It?s simple, yet it still gets the primary job done. The navigation seems to be working well enough that the primary purposes will be served, and setting up the navigation itself shouldn?t be too difficult. There do seem to be some issues with the overall mapping data, though those reports will likely vary according to each user?s particular location.? Still, for a free app, it?s far from terrible.

While being able to find your way around is useful in any small business repertoire?being late to a meeting never helps, and getting lost on the way to a meeting doesn?t make it any better?it?s far from the only thing that helps a small business keep up and running. Cloud-based telephony can be an important part of any business, and services like call control panels and intelligent routing are just part of a much larger mix that can put a lot of value into the standard operations.

GPS Direction may not be your navigation system of choice, but for those still looking for one, it may be just the thing to get you?and your small business?pointed in the right direction.

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Obama says Boy Scouts should allow gays as members

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2013 file photo, Boy Scouts recite the Scout Oath during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas capitol, in Austin, Texas. President Barack Obama said Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2013 file photo, Boy Scouts recite the Scout Oath during the annual Boy Scouts Parade and Report to State in the House Chambers at the Texas capitol, in Austin, Texas. President Barack Obama said Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions facing proposals to end long-held exclusions.

The president's comments in a pre-Super Bowl interview on CBS come ahead of this week's meeting of the Boy Scouts' national executive board. A proposal to open up the Scouts' membership to gays is expected to be discussed and possibly voted on at the gathering in Texas.

The Boy Scouts emphatically reaffirmed the no-gays policy just seven months ago, but announced last week they were considering changing the stance. Instead of mandatory exclusion of gays, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue ? either maintaining the exclusion or opening up their membership.

The White House said in a statement last August that Obama opposed the gay ban. Obama, like presidents for the last century, serves as honorary president of the group. The president's comment Sunday was his first since the group announced it was considering a policy change.

"My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does in every institution and walk of life," Obama said. "The Scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. And I think nobody should be barred from that."

Obama also had previously issued a statement supporting the Pentagon's decision last month to open up front-line combat jobs to women, but the interview with CBS' Scott Pelley included his first publicly spoken comments on the matter since the announcement. He said women are already serving in combat "as a practical matter."

"When they're in theater in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, they are vulnerable," he said. "They are wounded, and they've been killed. And they have carried out their jobs with extraordinary patriotism and distinction."

The policy change overturns a 1994 rule prohibiting women from being assigned to smaller ground combat units, and is expected to open up more than 230,000 combat positions that have been off limits to women.

Obama said he meets "extraordinary women in uniform who can do everything that a man can and more." He gave the example of one of his military aides, who he estimated is only about 5 feet tall and 100 pounds.

"You put a 50-pound pack on her, and she can do things that you or me would keel over doing. And so the truth is that women are serving. They are taking great risks. What we should not do is somehow prevent them from advancing in an institution that we all revere."

On the economy, Obama said although more revenue has to be raised to reduce the deficit, it can be done without raising income tax rates again. He said the answer is "smart spending cuts," reducing waste in the health care system and closing loopholes and deductions like offshore tax havens that benefit a few high income earners but not most Americans.

"There's no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit," he said. "We can do it in a gradual way so it doesn't have a huge impact."

Coming before the Super Bowl, Obama had to expect he'd be asked about his recent comment that if he had a son, he would have to think long and hard about letting him play football because of safety concerns. Obama said he feel differently about the NFL, where the players are well-compensated adults who know the risks, but the threat of concussions has to give parents pause about letting youth and children play.

"I want to make sure we are doing everything we can to make the sport safer, and that means the game's probably going to evolve a little bit," Obama said. "For those of us who like to see a big hit and enjoy the rock 'em, sock 'em elements of the game, we're probably going to be occasionally frustrated.

"But I do think we want to make sure that after people have played the game, that they're going to be OK," he said.

The Obamas were hosting their own Super Bowl party for friends and family at the White House. In honor of the two teams, the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, they were serving Chesapeake crabcakes and San Francisco cioppino stew with sourdough toast. Also on the menu are Clipper City and Anchor Steam beers from the competing cities.

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Trackur Announces CrisisShield ? Free Reputation Insurance

Social media monitoring software provider Trackur?which, not coincidentally, is run by me?today announced the launch of CrisisShield.

What is CrisisShield, I hear you ask? Well, it?s something not offered by any other social media monitoring vendor?completely free reputation insurance. Yep, CrisisShield is a free online reputation management insurance policy for customers on select Trackur plans.

CrisisShield comes without any additional fees and provides customers on Trackur?s Premium & Ultimate?social media monitoring plans with free peace of mind, including:

• Up to two hours of online reputation legal counsel.
  • Advocacy on your behalf, and additional hours beyond initial assessment and counseling charged at a discount on the normal hourly rate

• Up to two hours of managed monitoring advice and Trackur dashboard optimization from Trackur.

• A 25% discount off your existing Trackur plan (or higher) during the reputation crisis (up to 6 months).

• A copy of the book?Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online.

Trackur has partnered with online reputation management experts Search Mojo, and social media law firm Threshold Counsel. For more information, head to the official Trackur announcement.

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Photonics: On track for downsizing

Jan. 31, 2013 ? The ability to miniaturize photonics devices to sizes compatible with computer chips inches closer.

Optical communications, or photonics, technology has failed to match the miniaturization of electronic components, mainly because of fundamental laws of classical optics. The smallest photonic devices are limited to sizes of at least a micrometer. Researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) in Singapore have now realized a device design that beats such size restrictions and can be easily integrated into a silicon chip1.

Using so-called 'plasmonic techniques', the researchers, led by Shiyang Zhu at the IME, demonstrated optical resonator structures, which allow a beam of light to circulate in a closed path, that can be used as on-off switches for light. The device is based on plasmonic effects that guide the light along the surface of the metal. "The performance of our devices is comparable to the best reported results for related plasmonic resonators," says Zhu.

Conventional optical instruments, such as lenses, modify light as it passes through them. Plasmonic structures, however, act more like antennae that amplify light as it moves along their surface. Plasmonic features are typically created using metals such as gold or silver. However, integrating these noble metals with silicon chips is not only expensive, but also requires techniques that are incompatible with established silicon processing techniques.

As a workaround, Zhu and co-workers used copper to generate the desired plasmonic effects. Copper is widely used as electronic wires in silicon computer chips, and it has an established track record in the computer industry. The researchers built their plasmonic resonator devices from two copper structures that guide light along them -- a long wire adjacent to a circle (see image). The smallest width of the copper circuit is only about 180 nanometers, which is much smaller than conventional light guides.

The closeness of the wire and the circle is critical for efficient device operation. When light of a specific wavelength, which is determined by the dimensions of the circle, passes through the wire, some of it can leak into the circle where it becomes trapped. Light can only pass through the structure if it does not match the resonance wavelength of the circle.

The wavelength at which this resonance occurs is very sensitive to parameters such as temperature. In the future, this sensitivity in the circuits could be harnessed for use as switches that control how light passes through the wire, says Zhu. "The next step is to design and demonstrate active plasmonic devices, such as thermo-optic switchers and high-speed electro-optic modulators."

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1. Shiyang Zhu, G. Q. Lo, and D. L. Kwong. Performance of ultracompact copper-capped silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguide-ring resonators at telecom wavelengths. Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 14, pp. 15232-15246 (2012) DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015232

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Jude Law, Channing Tatum share Super Bowl plans

Jude Law, from left, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw and Channing Tatum attend the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Jude Law, from left, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw and Channing Tatum attend the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Channing Tatum attends the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Jude Law attends the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Rooney Mara attends the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Catherine Zeta-Jones attends the premiere of "Side Effects" hosted by the Cinema Society and Open Road Films on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK (AP) ? British actor Jude Law says he'll be taking part in a time-honored American tradition this weekend: Super Bowl Sunday.

"I follow most sports, so of course I'm aware of it and I'll probably watch it, but I live in London and so I don't follow it that closely. It's more than just a game here, though, right? It's like have a party. Have a dip. Drink some beer," said Law.

When asked if he'll be participating in any tailgate parties when the Baltimore Ravens face off against the San Francisco 49ers, Law admitted he had no clue what "tailgating" meant.

"Really? OK. I believe you. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not even gonna say," he said, laughing.

Luckily his "Side Effects" co-star, Channing Tatum, said he'd teach Law about Americans football traditions. He said he was heading to his New Orleans bar, Saints and Sinners for the weekend and was hoping for a good game.

"I really kind of want Baltimore to pull it out for Ray (Lewis) because it's a sweet story but I really like San Francisco's quarterback and whatnot so I think it's gonna be a really good game," said Tatum.

The actors joined their castmates, including Catherine Zeta-Jones and Rooney Mara, at the New York premiere of their psychological thriller "Side Effects" on Thursday. The film opens in U.S. theaters next Friday.

Turns out Law and Tatum have more in common than Steven Soderbergh's latest film: They've both been named People's Sexiest Man Alive.

"Yeah, there's a complete handshake and like a password and whatnot. I can't tell you any of those. I know what your next question is. It's not gonna happen. They come and kill you ? all of them. All of them together come and actually murder you. Yeah, everybody. They come and take you in the night and you disappear if you explain any of those secrets," joked Tatum, the current title holder.

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Web Designer Salary And Job Description | Vikipedio

Whenever we browse the internet, we see various websites, each having their unique interface, color scheme, layouts, and animations. Although we usually take these visually appealing and highly functional elements for granted, tremendous skill and design is actually incorporated in each of these elements. You may only take a minute or two to look at a website, but the planning, preparation, and design of each takes months or even years to complete. If you are curious about who is responsible for the websites we see in our browsers everyday, then read on to find out more about certain professionals called web designers.

Web Designer Salary Information:

According to salary.com, the average income of a web designer sometime in 2008 reached around $65,270 up to $50,725 per year. However, there are many different factors which could affect the web designer salary that one could receive. Those who are just starting their career in web design often gets lower than the average web designer pay than those who have been in the business for several years. This is due to the fact that those who worked longer had accumulated enough experience to make them skilled and seasoned web designers. Another factor is the type of employer you have. If you decide to set up your very own web design business, it can be tough to receive a higher web designer salary unless you are able to make a name for yourself and gain a large clientele. Those who work for well-renowned software-related companies earn higher web designer compensation. One other factor that greatly affects the web designer salary is the geographical location of your workplace. Those who work in certain regions in California earn about $79,982 or even higher per year, while those who work in Alabama earn about $47,580 and below each year.

Web Designer Education Requirements:

Several colleges and universities offer courses in web or graphic design. You can also opt to have ICT education as well as some background on animation. Most companies ask for people who have a background and training in computer software and web design. More than that, it is also important for future web designers to earn the necessary skills in computer technology as well as some knowledge about business marketing, since most websites aim to sell or promote certain products or services. Web designers should also have good communication skills in order to work in a team, since most websites are a collaboration of various computer professionals. To become a web designer, you do not need to have a license in order to get employed. Usually, the skills and education background you have is more important than the actual college degree you obtain.

Web Designer Job Description:

The web designer job description can be quite confusing, especially with the numerous titles and careers associated with websites and computer technology. Working as a web designer, it is your responsibility to create the look and feel of a website based on what a client wants, starting with the graphic design which is usually the first thing that visitors notice. It requires you to meet up with the clients, take note of their needs and preferences, incorporate appropriate photos and ads, creating a layout and design, and presenting it to the client for approval or alterations. Once a design is agreed upon, this is where the technical elements come in. The web designer would now have to convert certain data for text and imagery and convert them into something that can be viewed by visitors. This will also involve the creation of certain buttons, tabs, links, which visitors could click on. It is important to create websites with various elements and components that are compatible with any browser and operating system. This way, the target audience can be easily reached through the internet. Web designers need to be very versatile and flexible because of demanding deadlines, client requests and criticism, as well as having to work under pressure. Additionally, since web designers are required to meet up with clients, it is also important to possess good communication skills and the ability to work with a team.

With the number of computer or software related jobs in the market nowadays, the job outlook for web designers are looking good. The education and skills of a web designer can be used in almost any job or profession that has to do with developing or creating software and applications. With the number of companies nowadays which provide products and services that are computer-related, the demand for web designers is definitely on the rise and will continue to be on the rise as more and more technological innovations are being created and made available to the public. If you are interested in a career that pays really well and one that would stay in demand for several years, then choosing a career in web design might just be the job for you.

Source: http://vikipedio.org/web-designer-salary-and-job-description/

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Eating champ 'El Wingador' indicted on drug charge

WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) ? A five-time wing-eating champion known as "El Wingador" has been indicted in New Jersey on cocaine distribution charges.

William Simmons is charged with four counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and one count of manufacturing or distribution of more than a half ounce of cocaine in June.

The South Jersey Times (http://bit.ly/XpPsaf ) reports the 51-year-old Woodbury Heights resident is also charged with six counts of manufacturing or distribution of more than a half ounce and less than five ounces of the drug and two counts of manufacturing less than half an ounce.

"El Wingador" last won Philadelphia's Wing Bowl in 2005 when he gnawed through 162 chicken wings. Wing Bowl was started as a way for Philadelphia sports fans to blow off steam before the Super Bowl.

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Information from: South Jersey Times (Woodbury, N.J.), http://nj.com/southjerseytimes

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